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The attack malware was alarming to Android
Malware to attack rampant Android operating system. The proof, security firm Kaspersky identifies 70 types of malware in March last year on Google’s OS’s.
“The growth rate of malware within Android is very large, in the future there would be more,”said Grebennikov, one analyst of Kaspersky, as reported by Cellular News, on Monday (4/25/2011).
Added by him, hacking into the phone software has become increasingly sophisticated, and force Google to remove malicious applications that are available from the company’s Android Market store last month.
“We will be adding a number of steps to help prevent additional harmful applications using a similar exploitation of distributed through Android Market,”explained Rich Cannings, a Google engineer who worked on the Android security, as reported by Cellular News, on Monday (4/25/2011).
Android will run on 38.5 percent of smartphones sold this year, according to Gartner market research. In fact, by 2015 almost the majority of smart phones will be using Android.
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