Android Shares in the mobile market increased in 2013 to over 80 percent. At the same time, along with the popularity of the system increased the number of malware attacking Google operating system.
97 percent. of all detected in the last quarter of mobile threats was designed for Android – According to the latest report by experts from F-Secure. The exponential growth of interest in software developers Google malware system is the result of the growing popularity of the platform to the mobile market. This year, the market share increased to 81.3 Android percent. of 75 per cent. a year earlier. Malicious software on Symbian accounted for just 7 percent. of all threats detected last year by experts from the laboratories of F-Secure.
From June to September 2013 identified 259 new families of mobile threats and variants of existing ones. This means that compared with the second quarter – when there were 205 families of malware and variants – the number of malware increased. 61 percent. malware detected in the third quarter of this year is the Trojans. Most of them had to intercept text messages from banks to authenticate online transactions.
Malware creators are able to present additional security work around this by writing an application that intercepts SMS messages used to commit the transaction – draws attention to Sean Sullivan, Security Advisor at F-Secure Labs. In April this year, has been detected Pincer – a malicious program on Android, which served to circumvent two-factor authentication online banking transactions.
39 percent. Threats were classified as “potentially unwanted applications”, ie programs that contain functions that may cause danger to users of mobile devices and compromise the privacy of users. In July, found a new toolkit, Androrat APK binder, which simplifies the process of incorporating malicious code into harmless applications running on Android. After installation, the host application allows attackers to remotely AndroRAT take control of the device and include monitor calls and SMS, to activate the camera and microphone, as well as access to stored files.
preventive measures applied on Google Play meant that there appears less and less risks associated with malicious software. Become more serious while concerns about the applications available on Google Play that collecting excessive amounts of data violate users’ privacy.
People understand that sharing their data sector “big data” is not quite reasonable, yet still provide such information using insecure applications – notes Sullivan. – For companies like Google have to deal with at least some sense of responsibility and some established practices relating to the protection of privacy. If we remove your Gmail account, Google will remove our data. However, if it comes to small applications, we have no idea what is happening with our data. Most are sold to marketing networks.
For more information on the new mobile threats such as Trojan Fakedefender or vulnerability type Masterkey, as well as many other interesting facts can be found in the full version of the Report of mobile malware in the third quarter of 2013,
Source: F-Secure
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