Trend Micro says the number of high risk and dangerous apps targeting Android users jumped from 30,000 to 175,000 in September. Fake versions of legitimate Android apps are the most prevalent type of Android malware, the firm says. Trend Micro also found evidence that a series of attacks linked to Chinese hackers may include component for infecting Android devices in the future. Many of these issues are less of a problem in the United States and more worrisome in other countries, such as China and Russia. In those countries, users commonly use third-party app stores.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2012/10/sharp-rise-in-android-malwares-in-third.html