Number of malicious Android applications continues to grow - TeK.sapo

In total 1.2 million threats were identified, according to the latest security company G Data report. Between July and December 2013 have been detected a record amount of 673,000 malicious applications.

Data G Data have confirmed the growing interest among cybercriminals to attack the mobile operating systems, especially Android , along with other reports.

Kaspersky Lab reported two weeks ago that would have been developed for Android more than 10 million malicious applications there. Only at the end of last January totaled up nearly 200,000 unique malware samples.

G Data predicts that 2014 will be the year of data theft on mobile devices, with an increase of cross-platform attacks as well as fraud around the bitcoin and other digital currencies.

Security firm warns in particular about the possible emergence of malicious applications capable of stealing digital currencies directly from smartphones and tablets with Android operating system .

Among the most common families of malware, Trojan horses form the largest group (80.9%), followed by backdoors (18.8%) and exploits (0.3%) .

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