It seems like we keep hearing about new versions of Android malware every other day and Norton says that isn’t an accident. The bad guys are going to be increasingly focused on the mobile space and Android should be one of the largest targets.

Norton said Android is going to be an attractive target for bad guys because it fits the characteristics of a platform that will be targeted by cyber-criminals: it’s open, ubiquitous and monetizable. It’s open in the sense that there are plenty of documentation out there on the platform and it can be used to have apps modify it. If it’s not ubiquitous yet, it will be soon and it is increasingly being use for actions that can be monetized.

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