The G DATA's security experts have calculated that a new piece of Android malware is discovered every 10 seconds!

This unfavourable statistic is reflected by the appearance of 25 new malicious applications in the Google Play store. According to the SophosLabs all the apps contained a dangerous malware, identified as Andr/Guerilla-D, and were designed to pass as innocent-looking photo editors.

A full list of malicious applications can be found here.

It is disturbing that - yet another - malware has made it past Google’s Android app review process and were successfully obtained by many unsuspecting Google Play store users. In some cases the overall number of downloads excided 100,000!

Due to the insufficient protection offered by Google’s Android app review process the experts from SophosLabs recommend downloading and running additional security software on all of Android-based devices, such as Sophos’s free Sophos Mobile Security.