The Mobile Security Report released in 2011 on the mobile threats, which offers a look to reflect the current state of mobile threats. The report stated that mobile users are more likely than ever to experience a malware attack and tactics that cybercriminals are using increasingly sophisticated.
The news is worse for Android users, because most of these threats are directed at them. Apparently, Apple built garden is good at something, at least for now, the report notes that while privacy issues and application vulnerabilities affect IOS and platform Android, Android is by far the biggest target for malware and spyware.
Although spyware has been a problem for some time now, the presence of malware is rapidly mounting for Android devices. In January of this year, has up to 66% of spyware threats against mobile malware 34% in June, these percentages changed significantly, to 52% and 48% respectively.
In other words, if this trend continues in all similar to the one of interest, the malicious code will be the dominant security threat to Android users. It might have been.
The tactic that uses evil are as impressive as they are disturbing. The techniques include the cloning of a legitimate app and pack with bad code using misleading information, the display app mobile ads that lead to malware ("malvertising") and a tactic where a software malicious release a specific application, but then packets for malicious code in an update. Recently, researchers have discovered a Trojan horse that records specific Android phone calls now.
It is no surprise that mobile malware threats increase. Mobile devices are increasingly powerful small machines that users are increasingly relying on more general activities of information processing, and store sensitive personal data.But the richer content is actually more complex and tent to have more bugs and holes.
Lookout offers tips to prevent threats, even though most of them sound very similar to what you want to say something about the computer user: Only download programs from reputable sources (and degree outside of the developer), make sure that the link where it says it will be to install security software for watching and preventing threats, look for any strange operation of equipment, and install the firmware on request.
