Google announces upcoming security tools for Android, including enhanced protection against banking scam calls
Key takeaways
- Google Google just livestreamed the Android Show: I/O Edition, which is an event that takes place the week before the company's annual I/O conference.
- First up, the company is prepping enhanced protections against banking scam calls.
- Google is teaming up with select banks and financial institutions to slow down this practice.
Google Google just livestreamed the Android Show: I/O Edition, which is an event that takes place the week before the company's annual I/O conference. This gave us a peek at a bunch of new features coming to the Android operating system, and many of them focus on security.
First up, the company is prepping enhanced protections against banking scam calls. This is when scammers pretend to be a bank in order to get account information so they can scoop up some cash. The bad actors here have actually gotten quite refined, as spoofing tech lets the call actually appear as if it's coming from a bank.
Google is teaming up with select banks and financial institutions to slow down this practice. There's a new spoofing protection feature that automatically ends calls from numbers impersonating any of the participating banks. This also sends a notification to the user, letting them know that they likely received a scam call.