76 Percent of Malware Attack Android

McAfee released a report on the activities of the spread of malicious software or malware on mobile devices.

Report of the third quarter of this year was not much different from the previous quarter, the Android continues to be the main target of attack.

However, things are becoming much more dire for Android. Even though there are plenty of critics who don’t think Android is all that open source, whatever amount of open source qualities there are to Android is what is leaving the door open to mobile malware.

Quoted from TechCrunch, the amount of malware that take Android as the target jumped to 37 percent when compared with the previous quarter.

It also said 76 percent of malware targeting Android. That is, only a quarter of a malware attack with another OS devices.

In addition because of loopholes in the system, this surge is expected due increasingly popular Android globally and more widely used. At the end of 2010, McAfee predicts the end of this year the number will reach 70 million malware samples are different.

It turned out that far exceeds the estimated growth of malware, McAfee estimates that by the end of 2012, this figure is achieving the 75 million malware. 

One of the most popular mode is to send a short message that infiltrated the Trojan, which has the ability to steal data users. 

Vincent Weafer, senior VP of McAfee Labs, said: "This has been a very steady quarter in terms of threats, as both general and mobile malware are more prevalent than ever.

"So far this year, we’ve seen many interesting yet challenging trends that are affecting the threat landscape, including heightened levels of sophistication and high-profile hacktivist attacks." *** [TECHCRUNCH | ZD NET | MOBILE-ENT.BIZ | RATNANING ASIH | KORAN TEMPO 3714]

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