Showing posts with label android malware. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 14, 2013

Mobile Malware Targets Android

Posted by Unknown on Thursday, November 14, 2013 with 1 comment
 [News] Android now have a threats from a malware, the current Mobile Threat reports from secure shows some beginning statistics especially when in comes to android. 259 or more had threats family and alternatives had detected across the android os, with horrible 252 of them found in android itself other remaining found in Symbian OS and Nokia. while BlackBerry and Windows Phone or iOS are no threats.

Treats consists mainly a Trojans the biggest percentage of which are targeted at mobile banking. A huge primary of mobile banking Trojan viruses have the SMSSpy variety, which goal to intercept SMS messages sent from banks by means of secondary or two-step authentication of user qualifications or online transactions. F-Secure also detected huge count of PUA or the Potentially Unwanted Applications which undesirable functionality of inadvertently introduce security risk, the SMSSpy alter from other malware as it does not descend from a single undescribed source code.