The company F-Secure has made public its study on computer viruses and malware on different platforms that are on the market concluding that Google’s operating system focuses almost all of mobile new malicious software detected so far of 2014, specifically a 99% of the same.
Android accounts for 99% of new malware detected in 2014 for smartphones, according to a latest study by F-Secure which has identified 275 new families of threats to Android, iOS and another for Symbian. These are, so to speak, types of threats, it in fact the number of applications would be greater now that often share code to take advantage of an exploit in which send abusive payment messages.
F-Secure is that the emergence of tools like Dendroid has enough guilt of this exaggerated growth of malware in Google’s platform. This software allows you to create Trojans in a couple of clicks and was used in one of the latest threats seeking to use the phones for undermine bitcoins without knowledge of the user.
The 10 main families of threats represent 76% of all malware detected by F-Secure. 14% of them were able to affect the operation of the terminal and the rest were, of majority form, Trojans looking to send text of payment messages, steal data, or download more applications in the smartphone.
But as pointed out the Android helpcoworkers, is not either that we should be alarmed too much but if it is a theme that worry. 9% of these new threats are considered ‘unwanted applications’, i.e., are those that present us with a trap to fall into the mistake of sending our data or subscribe to a Premium SMS service, for example, that we do not want. The remaining 91% are enough more dangerous, since they are able to act on their own.
Google maintains a stance which States that exaggerate details that offer security on your platform companies, and to a certain extent not reason missing since if we stick to applications in Google Play, the percentage is infinitely less.
In general it is recommended to have enabled the option Verify Apps from Google, which is a kind of filter to, if not download the application from the official store for Android, check if you have the okay from Google. On the other hand, F-Secure gives in his report 6 suggestions users to keep their smartphones protected:
-Make sure that no one has access physical to your smartphone to avoid to install malware without your knowledge.
-Activates the burglar with the Android Device Manager mode to locate elt erminal distance, fix it or make it sound.
-Configures the restriction of messages. Since Android 4.2 you can activate an alert to high pricing messages.
-Download software from trusted repositories. The ideal is to use only stores like Google Play or Amazon AppStore, which have important safeguards before the publication of malicious software.
-Examine the permissions of applications. When you install an application always displays the permissions acquired. Review them is a good measure to see if that game that we have downloaded actually conceals something else.
- Analyzes the downloaded applications: obviously as computer security company F-Secure recommends the installation of an antivirus. We cannot say that this software is currently foolproof, but is never over. That Yes, care that you choose because already there have been cases of Trojans hidden in suspuestos antivirus as it was the of Virus Shield.
Do you think that Android is really a system so vulnerable to viruses or rather is the result of being the dominant system worldwide in the Smartphone market? Leave us your opinion in the comments and via MovilZona on Android forums.
Source: F-Secure
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Android is a victim of 99% of new malware for mobile created in 2014
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