Samsung branded Android phone users experienced great fear with the Play Protection notification. A malicious application has been detected to be installed In the system. And none other than Samsung’s payment app, Samsung Wallet.

Google Play Protection Detecting Samsung Wallet being malicious and with serious accusations: stating that the app is spying on your personal data such as SMS messages, Photos, voice recordings or calls. Seems like some kind of false positive.

Play Protection accuses Samsung app of being malicious

Play Protect’s report of Samsung Wallet malware has been around for a few days now and appears to be influencing a large portion of users to heed the reports shared on Samsung forums. He looks impressedfor both new and old mobile phones.

As a result, the mobile phone shows a Play Protection notification that tells us: A malicious app has been detected, Samsung WalletHe wants us to remove it. When we try to open the app we get another notification telling us that the app is malicious.

Play Protection Samsung accuses Wallet of spying on your personal dataThey are important words such as SMS messages, photos, voice recordings or call history. We still have the option to open the app, but no one can stop you from freaking out.

Now Neither Google nor Samsung commentedAlthough Samsung technical support has already received numerous notifications about this issue, stating What is strange”.

Everything shows this we would be faced with a false positivethat is, it is an erroneous detection by Play Protection, which is common in all antiviruses. Just in case, we extracted an APK of the same version of Samsung Wallet that Play Protect complained about and uploaded it to Virustotal.

The result was VirusTotal found clean Samsung WalletWith zero detection in 52 engines analyzed. Ironically, VirusTotal is owned by Google.

Surely the problem will be resolved in the next few hours or days. Meanwhile, some users say they can avoid notifications Update Samsung Wallet from Galaxy Store or by disabling and re-enabling Play Protection. However, it is still possible to use the application without paying attention to the warnings.

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