In the ever developing world of technology, mobile applications are increasing day by day alongside with mobile cyber threats as the new cutting edge technology makes continuous advances. This fact is valid as a result of shifts from e-government to m-government and classical e-business to m-business solutions as a requirement of user friendly and secure mobile technology and applications. The main threat is to the critical and sensitive personal data and information that can be captured by malicious codes and hence dangerous results can be faced. In this paper, malicious software and security techniques of the android mobile applications are analyzed in addition to protection systems from user, developer aspects and even Google Play. The main issue of this paper is providing a current picture of the security concerns of the mobile applications and some sets of counter controls for covering the risks and vulnerabilities of mobile applications in the Android platforms.