Arise almost 5000 Android malware every day – The Universal

  The growth of mobile Internet and the popularity of smartphones and tablets is an obvious fact. And more and more used to access online banking or shopping online. According to the latest survey of AIMC, presented in March of this year, 48% of the most active Internet users perform transfers or access your bank from their own smartphones.
 

 

 This reality has not escaped cybercriminals not only develop financial malware to attack the desktop, but also to attack mobile devices, especially those with SO Android.
 

 

 Why Android? Mainly by a massive penetration among users reaching 80% market share, according to IDC. The number of Android malware grows in parallel. In the second half of 2014, the experts at G DATA analyzed 796.933 new malware, nearly 4,500 every day. Throughout the year, G DATA analyzed more than 1.5 million new malicious files intended to attack the operating system of Google.
 

 

 “The attacks against users of online banking continue to grow. Smartphones and tablets are used every day for banking queries, transactions or purchases online,” says Eulogio Diaz, Director General of G DATA in Mexico “Unfortunately, cybercriminals continue to develop specialized malware to steal this data from our mobile devices, “says Diaz.
 

 

 The number of malicious Android apps has grown 6.1% over the first half of 2014. In total, the experts at G DATA SecurityLabs have logged more than 1.5 million Android malware in 2014, 30% more than registered in 2013.
 

 

  apps alternatives Stores, the largest source of danger
 

 

 The alternative app stores are the most common for malware distribution path. G DATA experts have analyzed several of these alternative markets to Google Play and found that those European or American accumulate less malicious apps that Russian and Chinese origin. In some markets the latter, up to 25% of the apps were infected with malware or PUPs (Potentially Unwanted Programs).
 

 

  Three predictions about mobility:
 

 

  Ads and espionage: The Superfish adware has shown that the SSL encryption may be ineffective and that cybercriminals can use it to spy on sensitive data that users store on their computers. For security experts G DATA, this threat could change platform and extended to mobile devices.
 

 

  Online banking in the spotlight: 2015 will be a year where grow the malware specifically designed to steal banking and financial data and cybercriminals rely on fake bank apps or manipulated to get this data. Check downloaded apps with an antivirus will become increasingly necessary.
 

 

  The “quantified”, another source of interest for cybercriminals: There are various gadgets and apps linked to the measurement data related to health, food and registration of all kinds of daily activities that store and analyze enormous volume of data about their users in smartphones and tablets. For privacy, G DATA seen the popularization of these devices with a certain reserve and warns that the theft of this data will begin to be in the crosshairs of cybercriminals.