Security vendors have been preaching about the impending doom of mobile malware for a few years now. Each year seems to see a dramatic spike in detected malware over the previous year, but users are starting to get a bit cynical about the coming mobile malware apocalypse. A new report from Webroot once again highlights an increase in mobile malware and also sheds light on how iOS compares to Android.

The Webroot Threat Research team analyzed nearly six million mobile applications, and hundreds of thousands of mobile infections between 2011 and 2013 to compile the Webroot Mobile Threat Report. It also reviewed data from around 125,000 customers who activated Webroot’s Lost Device Protection (LDP) feature.

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