Proliferation of Android malware is increasing significantly, but ...

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The Kaspersky Total number of known malware samples is clearly in the air skyrocketed. class=”source”> image: Kaspersky Lab antivirus company Kaspersky Lab [1] claims to have seen twice as many new Android malware in the second quarter of this year, as in the same quarter last year. According to the relevant risk report [2] the number of known malware samples for Android is increased in Q2 to around 30,000 to more than 100,000. Last year, the company had discovered in this period only almost 15,000 new samples.

is not cause for panic, however. Firstly, it is not about 30,000 new viruses, but samples – so each apps that are infected with one of the few Android virus families. Overall, Kaspersky knows it now 629 Secondly, the danger lurks not the official Google Play [3] , but in alternative app catalogs, which undergo the submitted apps in inadequate testing. That means in reverse: if you operate exclusively on the lush app offer from Google Play, which has little to fear. Alternative app portals, and thus Android malware, distributed mainly in Asia

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Going Green: On the computers German Kaspersky users there was comparatively little malware. class=”source”> image: Kaspersky Lab As to the risk of viruses for PCs, Germany is worldwide following as well as before: While Germany is in the top 10 countries where most malware is hosted, slipped, according to Geo-IP discovery with 14.5 percent from fourth to third place. The proportion of Kaspersky users, which had to be protected by the protection software is in this country, with around a third still in the moderate range. Often the Kaspersky guards about in Armenia, Russia and Kazakhstan had to intervene. Every second user has been exposed here an online attack

In the local virus can be so infected files to data storage such as hard drives and USB sticks, the situation in Germany is even more relaxed. According to telemetry data Kaspersky’s protection program were find Germany to 18.5 percent of computers – compared to infection rates of nearly 60 percent in Vietnam and Bangladesh

See also:

Alleged Trojan flood in Android [4]

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