Google says potentially harmful Android apps on Google Play declined by 31%

Google has released its annual Android Security and Privacy report for 2018 outlining the overall health and risks its popular and most widely ecosystem faced in the year.

The report observed that there had been an overall increase in potentially harmful application (PHA) downloads. The percentage of PHAs downloaded from the official Google Play Store increased from 0.02 per cent in 2017 to 0.04 per cent in 2018.