Showing posts with label Android Malware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Android Malware. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

So Android Main Target Attack "Malware"

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.