In recent decades, the share of smartphones has increased significantly, both in Sweden and in the world. Among the more popular models are both the iPhone and Samsung.
According to The Internet Foundation almost 50 percent of the Swedish population has an iPhone, while around 40 percent has an Android phone.
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Recently, however, it has become increasingly common for fraudsters to use smartphones to try to trick and extort money from individuals, either by pretending to represent an authority or a bank, or by simply pretending to want to protect you from digital threats.
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Android phone can get virus
Having a smartphone makes things easier for the vast majority of people, especially since you can now do most things with it. Everything from shopping, paying bills, transferring money, listening to music or watching movies.
The downside of having a smartphone is that the risk of getting a virus attack also increases.
As part of remedying the fact that users get viruses in their mobile phones, Android, which is owned by Google, has now taken measures.
By giving Android improved protection against viruses, malware, which is malicious code or deliberate sabotage programs, and other malicious software, they want to minimize the risk of being exposed to an attack on the phone, writes Mobile.
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The site writes that Google is now working to make the tools that actively scan apps and APKs, which are a file format, for malicious code even more effective than before. The company has therefore implemented a tool named YARA that is used in cyber security to detect, identify and classify malicious code.
Viruses can, for example, get into apps that are downloaded from the Play Store or via websites you visit. By implementing YARA in cloud-based and local scans for viruses and other malware, they want to make it even more difficult to get into your device. Thus, you as a user do not have to do anything, but the work of protecting you from malicious programs, codes and viruses is done by Android.
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