MADRID, 11 (Portaltic / EP)
company G Data Security Labs has found that there is a threat to the Android operating system every 22 seconds. This “malware”-that is forming all business for cybercriminals, is capable of intercepting personal information and call and send SMS to premium rate numbers.
Increasinglyusers who have Android in their smartphones. According to Gartner (NYSE: IT – News), about 75 percent of the smartphones sold worldwide in the first quarter of 2013 operated on Android operating system.
upgrade which seems unstoppable, you can explain that, according to the analysis of G Data Security Labs-cybercrime industry has developed a new app every 22 seconds malicious Android. Overall, G Data has registered more than 124,000 new malicious apps for the operating system of Google (NasdaqGS: GOOG – news) only during the month of May.
Most of this ‘malware’ is capable of stealing personal data and generate calls or send SMS messages to premium rate services. In addition, cybercriminals are accompanying these fraudulent apps intense advertising campaigns and aggressive messages that encourage users to install them.
German security firm G Data has estimated that the rate of new threats continue to grow significantly during the second half of the year as a result of mass acceptance of Google operating system in smartphones and ‘tablets’.
“Mobile threats have become a lucrative and profitable business for cybercrime, and the authors are mainly using Trojans, so versatile they can be used for both credential theft and personal data for the sending of messages to known as premium services, “said security expert Eddy Willems G Data Software.
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