Monday, July 30, 2012: If you are an Android device user, you may in deep trouble, warns British Telecom. BT has come up with some eyebrow-raising statements about Android operating system. Android malware is an issue for sure, but a security expert from BT has said that it is an epidemic, which is affecting everyone. Speaking at the NetEvents Americas conference, Jill Knesek, head of the global security practice at BT, said, “The company has analysed over 1,000 Android applications and the findings were rather shocking. We found that around one-third of the apps were compromised with some form of active or dormant malware. The team has found that almost every device is compromised with some kind of malware. However, it is unclear that whether the code is active or what it is doing."
It is worth mentioning here that several security firms have warned against malicious apps in Google's Play Store. Google introduced 'bouncers' to tighten the security in the market place but the concept seems to have not worked in Android's favour.

UPDATE: British Telecom has back-pedalled on its statement that one-third of the Android apps are compromised and that every device is malware infected. The company has refused to reveal the research publicly. In a reply to ZDNet, the company has said, “BT has indeed done some testing on both Android and Apple OS environments, but not necessarily on the scale reported by media articles in the last couple of days. BT has not released that information and does not intend to elaborate further on that topic at the moment.”