99% of mobile security threats target Android
L33tdawg: Is it just me or does 99% seem ridiculously high?
A study published this week has claimed that 99 per cent of mobile security threats that emerged in the first quarter of the year were targeted towards the Android platform.
Security software provider F-Secure said that its labs tested hundreds of thousands of mobile app samples in 1Q14 and analysed whether or not they contained malicious code. It found that almost 14 per cent of all Android apps tested were malicious Android apps, and it also found that 275 new threats that run on the platform. The firm only found one threat on each of the iOS and Symbian platforms.
“Mobile malware development in 1Q14 continues to focus exclusively on the Android platform, continuing the inexorable trend we’ve seen in the last couple years,” the security firm wrote in its 1Q14 Threat Landscape Summary.
