Latest Kaspersky Lab mobile security report has disclosed that 2016 saw a
near-threefold rise in mobile malware detections compared to 2015 to the tune
of 8.5 million malicious installations identified led by mobile Trojans,
reports ITRealms.
Kaspersky in its annual Mobile Virusology report made
available to ITRealms, noted that in
the space of just one year, a volume equivalent to 50 per cent of all the
malware detected in the previous 11 years (15.77 million in 2004 – 2015) was
released.
According to Kaspersky officials, leading the way were
mobile advertising Trojans which now make up 16 of the top 20 malicious
programmes, up from 12 in 2015, highlighting the evolution of mobile banking
Trojans.
The report pointed out that specialist officers from
INTERPOL’s Global Complex for Innovation have contributed an analysis of mobile
malware on the Dark Web to the report.
In 2016, ITRealms reports
that Kaspersky Lab mobile security products reported that nearly 40 million
attacks attempts by mobile malware, with over 4 million users of Android-based
devices protected (vs 2.6 million in 2015).
In addition, Kaspersky report showed that over 260,000
detections of installation packages for mobile ransomware Trojans (an increase
of almost 8.5 times, year-on-year).
“More than 153,000 unique users targeted by mobile
ransomware (an increase of 1.6 times compared with 2015); Over 128,000 mobile
banking Trojans detected (nearly 1.6 times more than in 2015),” part of the
report read.
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