Showing posts with label 35 Thousand Malware Aims Android Devices. Show all posts
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Friday, February 22, 2013

35 Thousand Malware Aims Android Devices

More than 35 thousand new malicious programs are detected threaten Android-based devices until the end of 2012. This was stated by Chief Product Officer of Kaspersky Lab., Petr Merkulov.

"The specialist Kaspersky Lab detects more than 35 thousand new malicious programs for Android devices in 2012, this means about six times more than the previous year," he said in Jakarta, Thursday (21/2).

According to him, nearly 99 percent of all mobile threats are detected Kaspersky Lab in 2012, is designed to attack Android smartphones and tablets, the user is expected to continue to grow.

In addition to the threat of malware, smart phone and tablet users often lose personal information is important not because of issues related to advanced technology, such as the loss of the device.