More than half of the ‘malware’ in Android seeks to steal money – Informador.com.mx

• Currently less than half of the threats in circulation are ‘malware’ financial

Specialists emphasize that the cybercriminal industry is adapting their threats to changing times and trends

MEXICO CITY (07 / JUL / 2015) .- In recent years, Mexico is experiencing a steady increase in the number of households with Internet access. This is mainly translated into a significant change in consumer habits of Mexicans, who increasingly make more purchases using digital media.

Similarly, more and more Internet users who do online banking from applications for smartphones and tablets that banks offer their customers.

This trend is attracting the attention of an industry, the cybercriminal , which is adapting its threats to changing times and trends. Subscriptions to calls or SMS Premium, blackmail via ransomware and interception of data during the process of transferring money: a study of G DATA reveals that over 50% of ” malware ” for Android It has a strictly economic motivation. According to the report, analysts at G DATA discovered more than 440 thousand new Android malware in the first quarter of 2015, ie a new ” malware ” every 18 seconds.

‘The Mobile devices are replacing traditional PCs in many tasks. Online shopping and banking are a good example. Every time we make more purchases online and consulted more often our bank account from your smartphone or tablet.

Mobile devices and Android particularly as the predominant operating system, it is becoming a huge bounty for some cybercriminals who are concentrating their efforts on the development of ‘malware’ specialized financial and banking Trojans attack this platform, “says Christian Geschkat, responsible for mobile solutions G Data.

Growing ” malware ” financial in Android

Mobile banking is becoming increasingly popular also and this has consequences when we speak of ‘malware’ ‘Android. G DATA experts have determined that at least 50% of the threats that are currently in circulation are financial malware and include banking Trojans and SMS Trojans.

A growing number of threats for Android in the first quarter 2015.

G DATA experts identified 440 000 267 new samples of ‘malware’ ‘Android in the first quarter of 2015, 6.4% more than in the last quarter of last year (413 871 thousand) and 21% more than the first 2014.