No of virus detected in the platforms mà ³ BATCH is £ oa increase â € œdrasticamenteâ??, says Kaspersky Lab E system from Google, Android, and Lader market à © as wholesale. In the second quarter, the company has detected more than 100,000 variants â € œmalwareâ??, Compared with about 47 000 detected hà ¡one year.
“The Android-based malware has evolved significantly over the others and other platforms has become cybercriminals’ favorite among all mobile operating systems. One might even consider it the equivalent of the Windows in the smartphone world, “describes the Kaspersky said in a statement.
Cybercriminals redistribute modified malicious applications on sites where they can be downloaded by users, such as third-party application stores, says the same source.
In terms of type of virus, Kaspersky Lab has detailed that the “ranking” of mobile malware, the first place is occupied by Backdoors (it’s a flaw that opens a door for the hacker to install a virus on your system), with 32 , 3%, followed by SMS Trojans (malicious messages are free to ask to download something that contains virus), with 27.7%. The Trojans regulars are third in the standings (23.2%) and Trojans Spies (used to spy device information) occupy the fourth place with 4.9%.
company “software” anti-virus warns that in the month of June, the “ransomware” (malicious program that seeks to extort money from users by hijacking your device) reached the mobile world, or more precisely, a mixture and fake antivirus “ransomware”.
detected application called “Free Calls Update” and then tries to run to get administrator privileges to modify the device configuration and power enable / disable connections Wi-Fi and 3G internet access.
During the second quarter, “Kaspersky Lab has detected what is probably the most sophisticated Trojan for Android of all time. It is able to send SMS to premium numbers, download other malicious programs and install it on the infected device and / or send it via Bluetooth. “
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