Google teams up with security companies to catch bad apps before they hit the Play Store 

Google announced that it’s teaming up with three security companies to help identify malicious apps before they’re published on the Play Store and can potentially do harm to Android users. The company is calling this partnership the App Defense Alliance.

Android is on over 2.5 billion devices, according to Google, and the company says that makes the platform “an attractive target” for abuse.

Source: Google teams up with security companies to catch bad apps before they hit the Play Store – The Verge