TechWorld: Android malware using real apps as disguise 'wrappers'

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From Angry Birds to angry users

By John E Dunn
16 May 2012

Mobile malware stepped up an order of magnitude in volume and sophistication during 2011 and this trend has continued in the first quarter of 2012, according to F-Secure’s latest quarterly report.

The threat posed by such malware in the real world has always been hard to assess but the numbers in the company's Mobile Threat Report show a clear pattern, especially for the number one malware target, Android, which dominates the statistics.

The security companies haven’t been exaggerating – while the success of new malware remains to be gauged something is definitely going on.

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