Malicious Android Apps Due To Increase By 400 Percent In 2016
Malicious Android apps are due to increase by 400 percent this year as they focus on targeting Asian countries, according to threat intelligence data harvested by Webroot.
The Webroot Quarterly Threat Trends report noted that the dominance of Android devices in Asian geographies means the rise in malware in the region is not unexpected. However, it does indicate that there is somewhat of an epidemic in mobile app malware, especially with Android smartphones.
The report also painted a mixed picture for cyber security threats in 2016. On one hand people are 20 percent less likely to encounter undesirable executable files than in 2015. But on the other, there are now nine million more malicious URLs in 2016, with 42 percent of them originating in the USA, which Webroot said show that geoblocking filters are being circumnavigated by cybercriminals.
