Android once again at the forefront of mobile malware attacks, according to F-Secure

According to F-Secure’s latest report titled ‘Mobile Threats’ covering the latest developments in the mobile malware sector for Q3 2013, the vast majority of malware is targeted directly at Android.

Android with its majority market share of 79.3 percent in smartphones and tablets is the main target with 97 percent of the threats tailored to it. The remaining 3 percent are directed at Symbian (which is pretty much irrelevant by now), while iOS, Blackberry and Windows Phone users can rest easy as no malware was found for them in F-Secure’s analysis which is sourced from apps on the Play Store, iTunes App Store, third-party app directories and anonymously collected data from users of their own mobile security software.