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Google is investigating fake casino apps that developers have been hiding within the Play Store's Early Access program, where public reviews remain disabled.
Google has launched an investigation after cybersecurity firm Bitdefender reported developers exploiting the Google Play Early Access program to distribute fake online casino applications, according to a report by Focus GN.
The Early Access program allows developers to publish unfinished apps and collect user feedback ahead of a full release, but public ratings and reviews on Google Play remain disabled for the duration an app stays in the program. Bitdefender identified thousands of such apps within Early Access, including some with hundreds of thousands of installs, with one app surpassing 1 million downloads. No further details regarding the specific nature of the fraudulent functionality within these apps or Google's planned remediation steps were disclosed in the available reporting.
The findings highlight a significant gap in Google Play's content moderation process, as the Early Access program's disabled review system appears to have allowed fraudulent casino apps to accumulate substantial installation numbers without the scrutiny that public ratings and user feedback would typically provide on fully released apps.
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