The appearance of the FakePlayer Android Trojan can be seen as the opening of a new front in the war between attackers and defenders. The evolution of attacks and malware targeting mobile devices is paralleling the history of attacks on PCs, but the attackers are moving at a much faster pace than the rate at which they developed new tactics for compromising desktop machines. The innovation that s occurring in mobile attacks is outpacing the state of the art in mobile defenses by a wide margin right now, experts say.
Source: https://threatpost.com/iphones-blackberrys-droids-becoming-moveable-feast-attackers-081910/74353/