Developing Markets Suffer Mobile Malware Pandemic with 1 In 6 Android Phones Now Infected Media Threat actors move from Google Play - 71% of malware-infected apps now on 3rd party stores London, Apr 21st 2021 – Mobile users already disadvantaged by an economic and digital divide have suffered the most from digital fraud throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. In emerging markets such as Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa and Thailand, 16 percent of mobile devices that processed a transaction were found to be infected with malware. That’s according to data from mobile technology specialist, Upstream, and its full-stack anti-fraud platform, Secure-D, just released in a 2021 report entitled: “A Pandemic On Mobile - Mobile Ad Fraud and Malware”. Insights come from Secure-D processing 1 billion mobile transactions and service sign-ups for 35 mobile operators in 23 emerging markets covering nearly 840 million users.