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The number of malicious installation packages found striking mobile devices more than tripled in 2016 resulting in almost 40 million attacks by malicious mobile malware, according to Kaspersky Labs.
Kaspersky's Mobile Malware Evolution 2016 report noted several trends that exploded last year, including the overall growth of mobile malware with 8.5 million malicious installation packages detected and the continued rapid development of mobile banking trojans with 128,886 being spotted. In addition, there were 261,214 non-banking mobile trojans found.
“As a comparison, from 2004 to 2013 we detected over 10,000,000 malicious installation packages; in 2014 the figure was nearly 2.5 million,” said Kaspersky Labs researcher Roman Unuchek, noting the number of attacks increased dramatically staring in late June – a trend that lasted through the end of the year.
One reason behind the large number of attacks is the fact that most smart phones and other mobile devices either receive no or late operating system updates leaving the device vulnerable to attack, particularly to the number one threat of 2016, advertising trojans that exploit super-user rights.
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http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=Mobile-Security
Kaspersky's Mobile Malware Evolution 2016 report noted several trends that exploded last year, including the overall growth of mobile malware with 8.5 million malicious installation packages detected and the continued rapid development of mobile banking trojans with 128,886 being spotted. In addition, there were 261,214 non-banking mobile trojans found.
“As a comparison, from 2004 to 2013 we detected over 10,000,000 malicious installation packages; in 2014 the figure was nearly 2.5 million,” said Kaspersky Labs researcher Roman Unuchek, noting the number of attacks increased dramatically staring in late June – a trend that lasted through the end of the year.
One reason behind the large number of attacks is the fact that most smart phones and other mobile devices either receive no or late operating system updates leaving the device vulnerable to attack, particularly to the number one threat of 2016, advertising trojans that exploit super-user rights.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=Mobile-Security