11% of Android banking and finance apps are dangerous

From Help Net Security:

11% of Android banking and finance apps are dangerous

Of the more than 40,000 mobile apps listed as suspicious:

• 21,076 contained adware
• 20,000 contained Trojan malware
• 3,823 contained spyware
• 209 contained exploit code
• 178 contained malicious JavaScript.

Meanwhile, of these 40,000 suspicious apps, the following number exhibited excessive permissions:

• 8,672 could capture device logs
• 8,408 could record audio
• 7,188 could access contacts lists
• 4,892 could read SMS messages
• 2,961 could write to contacts lists
• 4,018 could disable key guard
• 3,783 could read the device’s settings
• 1,148 could install packages
• 1,028 could access GPS information.