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Sead Fadilpašić

Google blocked thousands of developer accounts to stop malware

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Google has revealed it banned hundreds of thousands of hostile accounts and removed more than a million malicious apps from its mobile app repository in 2022 as part of its efforts to keep the Play Store a secure environment for developers and consumers alike. 

In its yearly report on bad apps, Google outlined how it prevented 1.43 million policy-violating apps from being published on Google Play during 2022.

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