Saturday, April 27, 2013

95% Malicious applications for smart phones designed for Android - research - FINANCE.UA

27.04.2013 23:00

protection specialists mobile devices over the past year have revealed 65.2 thousand malicious mobile applications, representing a 63% increase over 2011. In this case, 95% of the viruses have been developed for the platform Android, according to research organization NQ Mobile Security.

According to the company, in the first quarter of 2013 it was discovered more than 25,000 new threats, indicating an increase in speed for the creation of malicious applications.

In addition, experts say the popularity of Android-systems among virus writers – it was written for Android 94.8% of mobile viruses.

total for 2012 was infected about 33 million devices running this operating system. Such popularity of Android from the authors of malicious software due to the growing prevalence of platforms: Google celebrates every day more than 1.3 million activations.

found that 65% of recorded malware applications are variations of spyware, trojans, etc. Thus, the main purpose is to scam stealing users’ personal data. However, about 7% of malware aimed at disabling mobile devices.

Recall, according to a study by NQ Mobile Security, in 2012 the share of malicious programs for mobile platforms has increased by 163%.

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