Recently, the Google Play Store was impacted by a massive ad fraud that made users download "vapor apps" disguised as genuine popular apps. These ran recurring ads, making it difficult for users ...

After years of limiting people to one app at a time when downloading or updating multiple apps, Google is finally raising the ...

Google is introducing measures to combat malicious and fraudulent apps on the Play Store. These include improved pre-review checks for developers, enhancing the Play Integrity API to block harmful ...

Update 4/1/25: Here’s a list of common Google apps that don’t appear in the Pending downloads list, but will show an “Update” when you visit the Play Store listing directly: Update 9/4/24 ...

After all, that’s where users download most of their apps. Now, the firm has announced more security tools for the Google ... it to the Play Store listings, but some may manage to get through.