Chinese Androids Accounted for 64% of All Phones Affected By Malware
Well isn’t this surprising? (Hint: sarcasm.) NetQin – provider of mobile security services – are reporting some interesting numbers about malware and who was affected by it. Of all Androids affected by some form of malware, 64% of them were Chinese-owned and -bred devices. It’s unfortunate but not surprising considering that’s where most malware originate.
And those folks target less secure markets as well as Google’s official one. As for everyone else, the US came in second at 7.6%, Russia was next with 6.1%, Hong Kong had 2.7% and the UK made up for 2.1% of those attacks – the lowest of all regions counted. They mentioned that 57% of all attacks originated in the Android market. (Though we’re sure most of this has been cleaned up over the past couple of months.) [via DigiTimes]