SMS Trojans and Spyware

Most such awful applications ambition communications, area or added alone anecdotic information, Juniper said.

Of the accepted samples to date, 55 percent act as spyware, and 44 percent are SMS Trojans, which forward SMS letters in the accomplishments to the attacker's premium-rate numbers. Once those letters are sent, the money is not recoverable, Juniper acicular out.

Android's accessible applications abundance archetypal is to accusation for the prevalence of malware directed at the platform, Juniper concluded.