Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Five thousand new malicious program for Android by day – Journal News

This figure, revealed in GData security report, an increase of 21% compared to 2014 and means that, in practice, are discovered about five thousand programs of “malware” every day.

On average, experts found a new malicious code every 18 seconds. Most have finally economic fraud: the created programs serve to try to steal money from users, in the new era of online shopping, which increasingly use their mobile users to buy goods and services or consult the balance of their bank account.

Also the online subscriptions or through calls and text messages are again in vogue and are used to make “randomware”, ie to prevent user access to operating system and force it does pay a kind of ransom to regain control. The money transfers are another prime targets for cybercriminals, with several codes of “malware” to get intercept data transfers as they occur.

According to another study, in 2014, 96.5% of the programs malicious are created thinking of the Android operating system, the OS most used on mobile devices. The other common operating systems, only the Symbian can truly prevent Android from up to 100%:. Malicious code created for this system represent 3.45% of the universe “malware” known

Systems Operating as iOS (used in iPhones and iPads) and BlackBerry, PalmOS and Windows do not come together to reach 1% of the results.

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