Android: the great victim of mobile malware

Android is an excellent operating system. It is stable, fast and has a huge number of applications available. Besides all this, is the most popular mobile platform in the world. But have a problem, or rather, one big problem: the malware. Not the first time we talked about Android and its problems with viruses, but this issue is going from bad to worse.

99.9% of new malware phones discovered during the first quarter of this year are designed to attack Android phones, according to a new report from security firm Kaspersky Lab.

The vast majority of these are viruses trojans, which as you know are among the most used in the world at the computer. Additionally, most of these Trojans are the kind that sends SMS to premium numbers, and thus steal money from the victim.

Kaspersky Lab also detected that there was a "boom" of mobile viruses lately, since the amount of new malware discovered in only three months is equivalent to half of all discovered during 2012.

We hope that Google implement some new technology in software anti-malware soon, because things are getting more serious for Android.

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Android 2.3 is the most targeted mobile OS

According to a study conducted by the Russian firm Kaspersky Lab IT security, version 2.3 Gingerbread Android operating system is the most attacked the market, with 28% of all attacks specifically targeting the 2.3.6 version. In addition, the Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.4 is also among the most attacked, receiving 22% of the attacks. Kaspersky Lab says LOCKED have over 1300 million attacks in the last quarter of the year, and more than half were made using Java vulnerabilities.
Besides this, in the last quarter saw a 3% increase in the amount of malware URLs compared to the second quarter, reaching nearly 92 million in total.
Note that Gingerbread version of Android is the most used, being present in more than half of Android in the world, so we are not surprised that it is the episodes.

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Spyware are computer virus information

 

The antivirus company Kaspersky Lab announced today that it has detected a virus in the Middle East capable of spying on financial transactions, emails and social networks, similar to others used against Iran.

The virus "Gauss" which so far has infected computers in the Middle East mostly "is designed to monitor online banking accounts," to steal user information, visit history or passwords for access to payment systems or banking.

"Gauss is a complex tool, supported by nations for cyber spying, designed to steal sensitive information," says the company Kapersky antivirus and computer security in a statement.

According to Kaspersky, the virus was found in June while investigating another called "Flame", to which it very similar, and was designed to infect, among others, the teams from the Ministry of Petroleum of Iran.

Likewise, the new virus has similar structure to Stuxnet, another set of algorithms designed to attack Iranian nuclear facilities and allegedly used U.S. and Israel to boycott Iranian center for uranium enrichment.

According to Kaspersky, Gauss was developed between 2011 and this year and is dispersed in the Middle East team, especially in Lebanon, where about 1,660 computers are counted, and Israel in second place with 483 computers.

Although the security company has identified about 2,500 affected computers since May, estimated that "Gauss" was able to reach tens of thousands of computers.

Kapersky remember that these numbers remain lower than in cases of attack and Flame Stuxnet and Duqu, another virus with similar characteristics.

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