The Android Market doesn’t need to be cleaned up just to put things in some kind of logical order so it is easier to search for an application or to get rid of the several dozen applications that do the exact same nothing. No, it needs to be cleaned up because it has become downright unsafe in there.

A mobile security firm called Lookout just released a report at the Black Hat security conference in Vegas (where else?) that says that they discovered a malware program that is sending the private information of several million Android users to a mysterious location in China…all in return for some My Little Pony wallpaper.

I mean it, you can’t make this stuff up…

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