They weren't mobile banking apps, but Google's removal of a reported more than 50 infected applications from its Android Market might be a sign of things to come.
The reported 58 applications were removed from the Android Market and the company then used its remote application removal feature to remove the infected apps from users' phones.
"We are adding a number of measures to help prevent additional malicious applications using similar exploits from being distributed through Android Market and are working with our partners to provide the fix for the underlying security issues," Android security lead Rich Cannings said in the Saturday night announcement on his blog.
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