{"id":245468,"date":"2026-10-16T01:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/android-gets-ai-defenses-against-messaging-scams-fake-calls"},"modified":"2026-10-16T01:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:32:20","slug":"android-gets-ai-defenses-against-messaging-scams-fake-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/android-gets-ai-defenses-against-messaging-scams-fake-calls","title":{"rendered":"Android gets AI defenses against messaging scams, fake calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/android-gets-ai-defenses-against-messaging-scams-fake-calls.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google announced new AI-powered defenses against scam messages and call-forwarding abuse on Android, currently rolling out to eligible devices.<\/p>\n<p>The new measures aim to address the increased sophistication of scams targeting mobile users, including fraudulent bank alerts and voice-cloning attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMobile scams have evolved far beyond basic robocalls and phishing texts, turning into sophisticated operations that use spoofed numbers, fake bank alerts, and AI voice cloning,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/security\/new-android-scam-protections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Google says<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced new AI-powered defenses against scam messages and call-forwarding abuse on Android, currently rolling out to eligible devices. The new measures aim to address the increased sophistication of scams targeting mobile users, including fraudulent bank alerts and voice-cloning attacks. \u201cMobile scams have evolved far beyond basic robocalls and phishing texts, turning into sophisticated operations [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}