Threats, however, are overwhelmingly dominated by Android. According to the Threat Report 2H
2013 from F-Secure Labs, 97 percent of the mobile threats targeted the Android platform in 2013,
including 804 new families and variants.5 In contrast, 2012 saw 238 new Android threats,
demonstrating a huge growth in the problem of Android threats. The role of the application stores
of the various mobile platforms is quite significant