Mexico, El Universal / GDA
The world has experienced in recent years a steady increase in the number of households with Internet access. This is mainly translated into a significant change in consumer habits of people, 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 cybercriminals, which are adapting their threats to changing times and trends.
false to service calls or SMS Premium, cyber blackmail and interception of data during the process of transferring money Subscriptions are some of these new criminal methods.
A study of G DATA reveals more than 50% of malware (malicious code) to Android has a strictly economic motivation.
The report found more than 440,000 new malicious programs for Android in the first quarter of 2015, ie, a new malware every 18 seconds.
“Mobile devices are replacing traditional PCs in many tasks. The online shopping and banking are a good example. Every time we make shopping online more and more frequently consulted our bank account from our smartphone or tablet “, a Christian Geschkat firm, responsible for mobile solutions G Data. .
” Mobile, particularly those integrated system Android , is becoming a huge bounty for some cybercriminals are focusing their efforts on the development of financial malware and specialized banking Trojans attack this platform, “he says.
Growing financial malware on Android
Mobile banking is becoming increasingly popular and this also has consequences when it comes to malware Android .
G DATA experts have determined that at least 50% of the threats that are currently in circulation are malwares financial, and include banking and SMS Trojans.
G DATA experts identified 440 267 new samples of malware for Android in the first quarter of 2015, 6.4% more than in the last quarter of last year (413 871) and 21% more than the first 2014.
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