More than 440,000 new malicious programs ( malware ) for Android were discovered in the first quarter 2015, over 21% compared to 2014, with about five thousand new samples detected daily, according to data released on Tuesday.
On average, it is registered by experts a new malicious code every 18 seconds and more than half are designed to steal money, says the latest quarterly report on security in Internet GData , in which include the possible trends for the rest of the year.
The cybercriminals are adapting their threats to a new era of shopping and financial transactions, increasingly made from mobile devices, reports the Spanish news agency Efe. According to GData, more than 50% of malware to Android, an operating system of Google, has a strictly economic motivation.
Cybercriminals still enjoying subscriptions online the calls or SMS premium services to perform blackmail through ransomware , a type of malware that restricts access to the infected system and collecting a value of “Rescue “so that access can be restored, and intercetarem data for money transfer processes. The GData provides, for the rest of this year, the number of new threats “grow significantly”.
According to the report, the cybercrime industry plans to put into service malware designed specifically to attack the Android due to its “exponential growth” and its consolidation as a “predominant” operating system. With the growing phenomenon of connection between all, any smart device is likely to be attacked, whether cars, air conditioners, refrigerators, watches or other.
The researchers are faced every day “more security holes “in these new devices and connected equipment. In many cases, these devices are controlled to “smart” phones, and tablets so that, besides being the targets of attacks, are also susceptible to being used as a “vector infection” hyper these other devices connected, according to experts.
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