Android Malware is growing & stealing data from mobile devices
- Malware infections from Android apps keep growing every quarter, from 5,000 to 15,000 and now 25,000 total.
- The rate of infections growth last year was 155 percent over 2010 according to Juniper Networks.
- BitDefender Labs discovered Android Malware that regularly tells a remote server where the infected phone is. This can be very dangerous for a person because the location of the phone can be identified at any point in time.
For more information read these two blogs:
Android malware steals location data from mobile devices: http://bit.ly/MKzyl2
Android malware numbers explode to 25,000 in June 2012: http://zd.net/OJGLkK