Google is taking the stress out of sideloading apps on Android phones with a new feature rolling out to Google Play Store.

Android users should be careful what they download from the Google Play store, as security researchers recently found a selection of apps which contained North Korean spyware hosted there. The five affected apps appeared to be benign system utilities like file managers,

The Pause option ensures Play Protect reactivates automatically, reducing exposure to malware and security vulnerabilities.

Google has made good on its warning that the Play Store would be removing the ability to share apps with other users.

The team reports finding more than 6,000 such pages, “underscoring the widespread nature of the campaign,” and that the apps being downloaded “harvest banking credentials, m