The malware has already been placed in nine different third party Android app markets in China, infecting over 100,000, the firm said.

or just avoid App stores from China

If you're not going to pay attention to what you're downloading then install this or this. Problem solved.

You honestly think the attack vector isn't going to end up being used outside China?

Meanwhile, Kaspersky Lab said MegaFon, a major mobile carrier in Russia, contacted the security firm about a suspicious application found in both the Apple App Store and Google Play. Kaspersky Lab expert Denis Maslennikov said it seemed to be an SMS worm spread via sending short messages to all contacts stored in a phone book with the URL to itself, at first glance.

However, the firm's analysis of the iOS and Android versions of the same application showed that it's not an SMS worm but a Trojan that uploads a user's phonebook to a remote server . Maslennikov explained in a blog post that the 'replication' part is done by the server -- SMS spam messages with the URL to the application are being sent from the remote server to all the contacts in the user's address book. The app is called "Find and Call."

No, but by the time rogue apps usually get onto Goole Play, they're usually well known about.