60% of attacks Android users want to steal money – TeK.sapo

According to the company, Trojans and Trojan-SMS-Banking are the most common types of attacks, but over 57% of incidents in the last year were related to the sending of text messages to numbers Special pricing without the users’ knowledge.
 
 

The number of recorded attacks is growing exponentially and analysis from Kaspersky Lab and Interpol on cyber threats furniture reveals that the number of users of Android operating systems threatened by malware is six times higher than that recorded in previous year.
 

The attacks are mainly directed mostly against users from Russia although Ukraine, Spain, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Malaysia, Germany, India and France also appear on the list of the countries attacked. Just Russia 64.42% of all attacks that use Trojans to-SMS were recorded.
 

One of the types of threats identified by the study combines the Trojan-Banking with SMS-Trojan, he managed to intercept data from bank cards, as well as user names and passwords for online banking services.
 

Also here Russi is highlighted, with 90.58% of all detections of Trojan-Banking to be registered in the territory.
 

The analysis draws on data obtained by applying the Kaspersky and also reveals a growing trend of mobile malware variants, with almost 6000 variants identified in the last year, which represents a significant increase compared to 423 samples registered in the same period of 2013.
 

“In recent years we have witnessed a considerable increase in the number of mobile cyber threats, which have also become increasingly complex and intelligent enough to target specific entities. With the mobile market growing exponentially, it become more and more clear that these threats are mutating to include new attack vectors that allow them to explore personal devices, “says Madan Oberoi, director ciberinovação and disclosure on the Interpol Global Complex for Innovation.
 

Roman Unuchek, senior virus analyst at Kaspersky Lab warns that a successful infection with a Trojan-Banking cybercriminal can give access to all the money from his victim as a Trojan-SMS needs infect dozens or even hundreds of devices to achieve a profit that is worth the work, hence the difference in the number of attacks.
 
 
 
 
  

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