A security document on the Internet released by Symantec anti-virus company points out that in 2014 at least 17% of all applications for Android, which corresponds to about 1 million apps were disguised malware.
This represents an increase of 42% compared to 2013, when the number was around 700,000 apps.
But the more cautious is not so much with what is worry. According to Kevin Haley, Symantec’s security director, only a minority of these malware is in the Play Store, the official store of Android applications.
“Google does a good job at keeping malware off of Play Store . And if a malicious app to get in, they do a good job in finding it and eliminate it, “said Haley.
The real risk is in parallel stores and download Android apps from sites, links through emails or even .torrent files, said the security director.
According to Symantec, most of these malware tries to steal users’ personal data (email addresses , passwords, phone numbers).
iOS?
Symantec also made a survey of malicious apps in the App Store, the iPhone app store and iPad, and the number is totally different: in 2014, there were only three
“One benefit of Android vs. iOS is that it [the Google system] gives you more freedom of places to downloads. apps. But this freedom comes at a cost, “said Haley.
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