The official Android app for Kaspersky antivirus software have been removed from the Google Play app store in the latest blow for the company. BleepingComputer notes the move appears to have happened over the weekend, with Kaspersky's developer accounts also disabled and removed following a recent ban by the US government.

We’ve already seen a report from Statista, which showed that as of June 2024, the number of Play Store apps available was down a almost a million apps year-on-year, albeit at 1.7 million titles, there remains an expansive attack surface as the constant game of cat and mouse between bad actors and Google’s security team continues.

The Google Play Store could soon show you your Google Play Points on the app download page. We also managed to activate the warning that the Play Store will show when downloading apps that have not updated their watch faces to Wear OS’s new Watch Face Format.

Cybersecurity researchers have reported finding multiple mobile applications used in so-called ‘pig butchering’ schemes, lurking on the official Google and Apple repositories.