Android's new real-time app scanning aims to combat malicious sideloaded apps | TechCrunch

Here's our hands-on review of the new Android security feature, which scans sideloaded apps for malicious content.

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Maliciously sideloaded? means the freedom users enjoy by not installing spyware-like application. Nowadays Security terms doesnt mean its for the users, that narrative is always with them.
- Maliciously sideloaded doesn't mean all apps that were sideloaded are malicious, it refers to those that were sideloaded and are malicious, like the recent WhatsApp modded apps that have a Trojan, or apps installed via usb debugger exploits

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