McAfee also adds, in the third quarter of 2011, up 37 percent of malware Android. Although lower than that reached the second quarter increased 76 percent, but this figure shows malware on Android devices is a real threat.
One form of fraud virus the most popular in the third quarter is the sender of an SMS Trojan that collects personal information and steal money from there. Based on research conducted McAfee, malware authors take advantage of the popularity of Android devices as well as its security weaknesses. Another method is to steal user information from records telephone conversations and send it automatically to the hackers.
Hoffman further stated, exponential growth in malware Android has occurred since July 2011. Hackers often create pirated applications that are similar to legitimate applications so that users download the application Andoroid which is actually an artificial virus hackers.
Other types of security attacks is a fake antivirus. In addition, the emergence of counterfeit and stolen password autorun also increased. Meanwhile, spam remains at its lowest level since 2007. For botnet infections, overall slight decline in the third quarter, but has a significant improvement in Argentina, Indonesia, Russia, and Venezuela.
Another study conducted Juniper And Hoffman, chief analyst at Jupiter analytical agency found the virus is a traditional hacker community is very similar to the group of hackers for the PC. "Included among the children aged fifteen years has been able to hide malicious content into the application," explains Hoffman.
