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Google has released its Android Security Annual Report detailing its and the ecosystems security achievements and shortcomings during 2015.

The headline figure in Google’s second annual Android security report is that malware was installed on fewer than 0.15 percent of devices that only install apps from Google Play, meaning no change from last year’s first Android security annual report.

The report canvasses a number of major changes Google has implemented over the past year to improve Android security and its responses to malware threats.

Google hopes the report will “drive an informed conversation” about Android security as it attempts to address challenges in distributing security updates to a highly fragmented ecosystem. As it notes in the report, there are now 60,000 unique device models that make up the Android ecosystem.

While device fragmentation may add to the complexity of patching Android devices, Google argues that this diversity also “provides a naturally occurring defense against simple widespread exploitation, and has made it more difficult for attackers to be successful against the platform as a whole.”