In order to protect Android users from malware and suspicious apps, Google has been continuously working to detect and remove malicious apps from your devices using its newly launched Google Play Protect service. Google Play Protect-- a security feature that uses machine learning and app usage analysis to check devices for possibly harmful apps-- recently helped Google researchers to recognize a new deceptive family of Android spyware that was stealing a whole lot of information on users. Found on targeted devices in African countries, Tizi is a fully-featured Android backdoor with rooting capabilities that installs spyware apps on victims' devices to steal supersensitive data from popular social media apps like WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Skype, Viber, and Telegram. " The Google Play Protect security team discovered this family in September 2017 when device scans found an app with rooting capabilities that exploited old vulnerabilities," Google said in a...