the Vast majority of mobile device owners use Android (86%), it is not surprising that they often become victims of cybercriminals. From the data supplied by firm F-Secure, shows that last year every day came to her about 9 thousand samples for analysis.
Android targeted by cybercriminals
Users of Android devices, more likely, can’t sleep – from the data supplied by the virus lab AV-TEST show that since January 2013, was already over 15 million malware samples wycelowanych in this system.
the Actual scores fell between may and July of 2016. Only in June this year for analysis were sent to 1.5 million samples. In 2015, were discovered about 4.5 million infected samples, and in 2016 to identify the 7 million only lasted for the first 8 months.
Why Android has become the favorite target of cybercriminals? The problem is primarily the lack of the lack of regular updates of the system. Statistics show that in August of 2016 with version 6.0 Marshmallow used only 18.7% of users. Users of Apple iOS are much more zapobiegliwi – is just a few days after the introduction of the new version of the system “przesiada” more than half of the users. Another relief for cybercriminals is the low level of authorization of the application in the Google, as well as the ability to install software from untrusted sources.
Popular types of malicious applications
In 2015 the 10 most common malicious apps on Android accounted for 25% of all malicious programs for this system. Dominated then the application sends out SMS with increased payment on top of the list were SMSSend. The militants have capitalized on by creating your own phone number with increased pay. The infected device is sent to that number an SMS message to the cardholder’s account, and the fees eventually got to the attacker.
Currently, trend is the use of software to encrypt and wymuszającego ransom. Ransomware such as popular in 2015 Slocker encrypts images, documents and video files on your device, and then displays a message oskarżającą user for violation of rights through visiting pornographic web sites. The software requires to pay a fine of $ 500 to unlock your device, and to intimidate the victim receives a message that is received is left to the user’s face and know his location.
How to protect yourself from threats?
One of the options protection is an anti-virus system for mobile devices. Experts are convinced, however, that provides additional security for the VPN, i.e. the application that provides connectivity with the corresponding encryption key.
even If hacker will try to capture our movement will not be able to read it by means of a suitable algorithm to implement for encryption, – explains Mikhail Ivan, Executive Director of F-Secure in Poland. VPN (virtual private network) hides your real IP address, also allows us to change our intended location. Solutions of this type are protected from malicious software that automatically blocks sites with malicious code, – sums up Ivan.
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