Google has asked a California federal judge to pause his sweeping court order requiring it to open up its app store Play to greater competition.

And now Google has painted an even bleaker picture as to the scale of the threat. “Based on our analysis of major fraud malware families that exploit sensitive permissions,” it has just warned in a new blogpost, “we found that over 95 percent of installations came from internet-sideloading sources.”

Epic Games is pushing for big changes to the app store model, and Google isn’t ready to give up control just yet.

Google (GOOGL) requests a delay in a court ruling that ordered the company to allow more competition in Play Store following lawsuit by Epic Games. Read more here.

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