We were talking last night about a new type of malware affecting Android terminals, more precisely, record calls made by users and upload them to certain web servers. Now we know about one report of a computer security company, which claims that Android users are now 2 times more vulnerable to malware attacks than 6 months ago. The company claims that the number of applications infected with malware has increased almost 3 times in the last 6 months from 80 to 400 and in the first half of this year over 500.000 owners of Android terminals were infected with malware, an almost insignificant figure if we compare it with the number of terminals available on the market.
An estimated 500,000 people were affected by Android malware in the first half of this year, a period when apps infected with malware rose from 80 in January to more than 400 in June, according to the report, which focuses on Android and Apple's iOS. Lookout collects data from more than 700,000 Android and iPhone apps and 10 million Android devices around the globe, and offers free and fee-based versions of a security service for the open source Android platform, but not for iOS. While Apple vets every app before allowing it to be sold on the Apple App Store, the Android Market allows any app to be published but provides detailed information about what permissions the app has on a device.
