An IT Wire story published on the 8th of September is suggesting that Android may be becoming the target of choice for malware authors over Windows.
There is a lot of ways that you can parse the meaning of the data cited in the IT Wire story, with some reasonable and some unreasonable conclusions being drawn by commentators on social media.
It’s long been hypothesized that the reason that malware infections on Windows were more prevalent than on other platforms was due to the greater market share of the Windows OS. I suspect that this theory is being borne out. The rise in market share of Android has been accompanied by a rise in the amount of malware targeting the platform. As more and more people use Android devices, malware authors are going to spend more time coming up with ingenious ways of exploiting the platform.