Exploits are programs that are a few years a very effective way of infection of computers. Attacking usually via the Internet, malicious code enters the computer errors in your code using the installed applications and operating system is infected malware that can spy on user, steal passwords and allow cybercriminals to take control of the computer. It is through the exploits disseminated on the network such as BlackHole botnets, Cool or SweetOrange, that infected hundreds of thousands of IP addresses around the world. Mobile threats are not only in the shops of applications. In the first half of the year in the laboratories of F-Secure discovered 358 new families and variants of malware attacking device with Android operating system (the total number of detected viruses on Android amounted to 405,140). Almost doubled the total number of known threats to the platform Google to the number 793 The second most attacked mobile operating system was Symbian (16 new families and variants of malware). Interestingly, there were no new families and variants of malware attacking mobile platforms such as iOS, Windows Phone, Black Berry OS and introduced this year for the Firefox OS.
In the first half of 2013 discovered a new channel spread of mobile viruses – through the so-called. Malicious advertising (malvertising called). Malvertising, is a form of online advertising, which is to display banners on web pages that redirect victims to sites containing malicious applications. View: F-Secure’s report on the risks in 1H2013 (. pdf, 5 MB)Source: F-Secure
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