350,000 different pieces of malware targeting Android

Trend Micro has detected 350,000 threats for Android in 2012, with Android gathering more malware in 3 years than PCs in 14.
The number of Android malware detections spiked in the third quarter from 41,000 to 156,000 samples, with 40% premium number diallers, 38 percent being adware, 25 percent spyware, while 22 percent included a malicious downloader.
By the end of this year, the volume of Android malware could reach as high as the 1 million, around the same number as apps as there are in the Google Play store.