Growing malware menace for mobiles
Computer Fraud & Security · 2010
At a recent event, Denis Maslennikov of Kaspersky Lab said that 35% of malware is now aimed at mobile devices and is distributed via the web. The company is seeing 30 new varieties or variants of mobile malware each month. And the malware is also more complex, with the capability to detect an existing Internet connection or make new connections, download additional malicious files, and perform URL redirection and phishing attacks.