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Android Fails in Mobile Malware Research

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Android malware appears to be more widespread than I had thought. I was alerted to that fact recently with a reference to a story in Biztech referring to research done by Dan Guido, Co-Founder and CEO of Trail of Bits. The firm is an independent information security company. (Guido's co-founders are Alex Sotirov and Dino Dai Zovi, both well-known and respected mobile security researchers.)

The stand-out number in the research has to do with the extent of malware-tainted Android devices: "Our research has determined that out of the 300 million Android devices out there, the presence of malware has been discovered on about a million of them. That's a significant number." A million? I'd call that significant.