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In this way, Bitdefender App Anomaly Detection protects users even if they unknowingly have installed a dangerous app that runs inactive for a period of time, or an apparently trustworthy app that interferes with its functionality and turns out to be malicious – all with minimal Impact on battery life. Other Android anti-malware solutions currently available on the market use signature-based detection, which cybercriminals could circumvent by designing their mobile applications to show malicious behavior only when certain conditions are met, or after a period of days or weeks after that are initially downloaded.īitdefender App Anomaly Detection uses a combination of machine learning models, real-time behavioral scanning, reputation systems and other data points to continuously monitor and detect the moment an application transitions from harmless to malicious. It protects users from known and unknown (zero-day) attacks that lead to financial loss, account takeover and identity fraud.

The Anomaly Detection app is designed to protect Android mobile users’ data, financial assets and identities from fake or malicious applications. Some of these acted as delivery mechanisms for mobile banking Trojans that steal user credentials.īitdefender App Anomaly Detection is a technology built into Bitdefender Malware Scanner that provides an extra layer of protection by continuously monitoring and detecting malicious behavior and notifying the user when suspicious activity is detected. The number of malicious and compromised Android applications available for download from popular app stores continues to grow as cybercriminals increasingly leverage the malware-as-a-service (MaaS) model.īitdefender research identified dozens of Android applications that were downloaded millions of times from the Google Play Store in the last year alone, which turned out to be malicious once installed by users. Bitdefender has introduced the Anomaly Detection app, the real-time, behavior-based protection layer now available in Bitdefender Mobile Security for Android, which continuously detects anomalous and malicious behavior in Android applications as they occur.