Google Play Protect fails Android security tests once more

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Google Play Protect, the Android built-in malware defense system, has failed the real-world tests of antivirus testing lab AV-TEST after detecting just over two thirds out of more than 20,000 malicious apps it was pitted against. [...]
 
According to AV-TEST's results, Google's mobile threat protection solution ranked last out of 15 Android security apps tested over a span of six months, between January to June 2021.
 
While always running and scanning every app installed and launched on the device, "the endurance test revealed that this service does not provide particularly good security: every other security app offers better protection than Google Play Protect."

During this 5-month long endurance test, Google Play Protect detected a little over two-thirds of nearly 20,000 infected apps the testing lab used as part of three rounds of tests.
 
Each of these testing rounds pitted the security apps against over 3,000 newly-discovered malware samples (up to 24 hours old) and a reference set of more than 3,000 other up to one-month-old samples.
 
"A total of 5 apps always detected all the attackers 100 percent in the real-time test and in the test with the reference set," AV-TEST found.
"Finishing in last place, Google Play Protect only detected 68.8 percent in the real-time test and 76.6 percent in the test with the reference set."

Read more: Google Play Protect fails Android security tests once more (bleepingcomputer.com)