Google announced Android update that seeks to fight scammers And theft of personal data. New security measures include protection against scammers, detection of real time in Google messages and a new tool for checking your personality through a QR code. The technology will also protect your information if your mobile phone is stolen to prevent the use of your data for financial fraud.
According to the blog report, Google introduced the battery of functions to increase our safety. Technological looked at telephone fraud, The threat that every day affects millions of users around the worldSome characteristics are available for some time in the United States, and today they are officially deployed in Spain and other markets.
Among the protection against telephone fraud is a function that Block your mobile phone if it discovers unusual behaviorFor example, if a person calls you and passes through the head of the bank or financial service, Google will analyze the templates and prevent changes in the configuration of security or applications from the web browser.
When this happens, a mobile phone will launch a warning window that reports that it can become a victim of fraud. The system too It will prevent you from providing more permissions from the necessary applicationThe Google field mentioned that these operations will be performed directly on the device and will be applied to calls with people who are not in our contact list.
Android will warn you if a fraudster is a message
One of the most striking features of this update is Key checkA tool for checking the personality of people with whom you yourself send. This function uses QR codes with public encryption keys for Make sure you are talking to the right person. The key check indicates fraud, which are carried out through SIM Exchange attacks, an increasingly widespread practice among the attackers.
Another function that has already been declared several months ago is Detection of Google messagesThis function is based on AI to identify messages that are transmitted through financial institutions, technical support or state offices. For example, if a fraudster sends you messages, warning that you won a gift card that was blocked by your access to online banking or your cryptocurrency wallet, fraud detector Show a red warningField
Finally, Google will implement New measures against the theft of the deviceThe field if your mobile is changed, Android will limit the function to restore factory data if you do not authorize it. The issue of safety will also be added in a remote block and Line passwords on the lock screen will be hidden So the attacker does not have access to your information.
Some functions such as checking the key will Available on all Android 10 or higher devicesWhile others are limited by Android 16 (for example, identification verification or a single password block). Google will also show notification when some malicious application changes the icon in order to impersonate the legal one.
Source: Hiper Textual
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