Last week, malware was uploaded onto the Android Market that infected tens of thousands of mobile phones. Google has taken down the offending apps, suspended the associated developer accounts and contacted law enforcement officials.
On Tuesday evening, the Android team was made aware of a number of malicious applications published to Android Market, posted Rich Cannings, Android Security Lead. Within minutes of becoming aware, we identified and removed the malicious applications. The applications took advantage of known vulnerabilities which don t affect Android versions 2.2.2 or higher.
Source: Google Mobile Blog
