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What’s New in Android Security and Privacy in 2025 (security.googleblog.com)
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[-] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Our research shows that phone scammers often try to trick people into performing specific actions to initiate a scam, like changing default device security settings or granting elevated permissions to an app. These actions can result in spying, fraud, and other abuse by giving an attacker deeper access to your device and data. To combat phone scammers, we’re working to block specific actions and warn you of these sophisticated attempts. This happens completely on device and is applied only with conversations with non-contacts.

Android’s new in-call protections1 provide an additional layer of defense, preventing you from taking risky security actions during a call like:

  • Disabling Google Play Protect, Android’s built-in security protection, that is on by default and continuously scans for malicious app behavior, no matter the download source.
  • Sideloading an app for the first time from a web browser, messaging app or other source – which may not have been vetted for security and privacy by Google.
  • Granting accessibility permissions, which can give a newly downloaded malicious app access to gain control over the user's device and steal sensitive/private data, like banking information.

Bruh, if you are falling for simple stuff like a stanger telling you to chance settings over a phone call, you're cooked.

No "protection" can save you.

this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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