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The number of Android apps infected with malware in Google’s Play store nearly quadrupled between 2012 and 2014. Make no mistake about it, there is such a thing as Android malware, cyber criminals create malware-spreading apps in devious attempts to steal personal details and advertisers use it as a marketing channel by bundling pushy ads with apps. In the first case, the users’ mobile security is clearly compromised. In the second one, the ad-app bundle is seldom mentioned, so users who download it unknowingly face a mobile privacy threat.

The most common Android malicious apps will do at least one of the following:

Collect and send GPS coordinates, contact lists, e-mail addresses etc. to third parties

Send SMSs to premium-rate numbers

Subscribe infected phones to premium services

Record phone conversations and send them to attackers

Take control over the infected phone

Download other malware onto infected phones

“Push notifications ads” delivering alerts to a phone’s notification bar – when the user swipes to pull down the notification bar from the top of the screen, an ad shows up under Notifications.

“Icon ads” inserted onto a phone’s start screen – when the user touches the icon, it usually launches a search engine or a web service