AI now detects the majority of new malware on Android
The way Google detects malware on Android is changing rapidly. Fifty-five percent percent of Google’s new malware detections on their mobile operating system in the last week came through machine learning. That’s an exponential increase over just six months ago when that figure sat at around five percent, according to Adrian Ludwig, an NSA veteran who now oversees Android security inside Google. Google Play Protect, Android’s automated application security software, is on more than 2 billion devices, in every country in the world. After three years of testing, Google started applying machine learning models to Google Play Protect only about a year ago in what’s described as a nascent and experimental period. The last six months have seen “an inflection point,” Ludwig told CyberScoop. “We’re now actually starting to see some of that return on investment.” Android employs a team of machine learning experts and security researchers to drive the technology forward and handle it […]
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