And now Google has painted an even bleaker picture as to the scale of the threat. “Based on our analysis of major fraud malware families that exploit sensitive permissions,” it has just warned in a new blogpost, “we found that over 95 percent of installations came from internet-sideloading sources.”

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Google had said it would be appealing the verdict. “As we have already stated, these changes would put consumers’ privacy and security at risk, make it harder for developers t