GoKawiilAndroid 17, expected to roll out next month, will introduce several security and privacy features focused on device theft, threat detection, and banking scam calls.
Google will be expanding protections against scammers spoofing caller IDs to impersonate financial institutions and trick users into transferring money or revealing account-related information.
Android will work with banking apps to detect spoofed calls and automatically terminate the connection when a scam is identified.
Terminating a scam call
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The call's authenticity verification occurs via app-level queries and by comparing the calling number to an internal set provided by the banks, and is not used for customer communication.
The initial rollout will cover the massively popular digital banking and payments app Revolut, the large Brazilian retail and commercial bank Itaú Unibanco, and the Latin American digital bank Nubank.
Although the feature will be introduced in Android 17, Google promises to make it available on Android 11 and later.
Android’s Live Threat Detection - an anti-stalkerware capability that leverages Play Protect to analyze app behavior and assess potential risk - is being expanded to detect additional abuse techniques, including SMS forwarding misuse, concealed accessibility overlays, apps that hide or alter their icons, and malicious background launches.
Flagging a malicious app
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