India second-most affected with Android malware: Report

January 26, 2016 00:38

India is not only home to one of the largest smartphone user base, but also the second-most affected in terms of Android malware with close to one million devices being infected in 2015, a report by Cheetah Mobile Security said.

India trails only China, which had 1.5 million infected devices last year. Other countries with high infection rates included Indonesia (8,00,327 devices), Russia (4,63,385), Malaysia, Mexico, the US (3,22,833), Vietnam, the Philippines and Iran.

"In 2015, China, India and Indonesia were the three-most severely-afflicted countries. Apart from large Android user bases, another reason of these countries becoming the worst-hit ones is that third-party app markets are prevailing in these areas, many of which have been contaminated by malware due to weak monitoring," the company said.

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