Android phone users seem to have to be careful and further enhance the security of mobile phones. The
reason, a study conducted McAfee, the antivirus which is owned Intel,
found that the primary target for mobile malware is new is the Android
device.
McAfee also adds, in the third quarter of 2011, up 37 percent of malware Android. Although
lower than that reached the second quarter increased 76 percent, but
this figure shows malware on Android devices is a real threat.
At
the end of 2010, McAfee estimated that malware will never reach 70
million unique samples until the end of 2011, but in fact, not until the
end of the year, 75 million samples of malware has been attacking.
Based
on research conducted McAfee, malware authors take advantage of the
popularity of Android devices as well as its security weaknesses. One
form of fraud bervirus the most popular in the third quarter is the
sender of an SMS Trojan that collects personal information and steal
money from there. Another method is to steal user information from records telephone conversations and send it automatically to the hackers.
Other types of security attacks is a fake antivirus. In addition, the emergence of counterfeit and stolen password autorun also increased. Meanwhile, spam remains at its lowest level since 2007. For
botnet infections, overall slight decline in the third quarter, but has
a significant improvement in Argentina, Indonesia, Russia, and
Venezuela.
Another
study conducted Juniper And Hoffman, chief analyst at Jupiter
analytical agency found the virus is a traditional hacker community is
very similar to the group of hackers for the PC. "Included among the children aged fifteen years has been able to hide malicious content into the application," explains Hoffman.
Hoffman further stated, exponential growth in malware Android has occurred since July 2011. Hackers
often create pirated applications that are similar to legitimate
applications so that users download the application Andoroid which is
actually an artificial virus hackers.
This happens due to weak controls on the Google applications that can be installed on the Android Market. Even
though Google eventually finds and removes some applications that are
proven false, but Google's Android could not prevent users who have been
required to download a virus and become infected.
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