Along with the increasing sales of smart phones, is directly proportional to the increase of malware that attack it. Even the increase continues to occur in recent time.
Security firm Kaspersky noted, at least 514 families and 107 variants of mobile malware detected in August 2009. At the end of 2010 (14 months later), that number jumped to 1,000 and 153 family variant, or an increase of 94 percent and 44 percent respectively.
Overall, the 'universe' is dominated by SMS mobile malware Trojan, which is the application code to send SMS to short number of fee-based. So that was reported by TG Daily, Thursday (24/03/2011).
Given that the number of malicious code was developed with the aim to attack the banking side, SMS Trojan exploiting vulnerabilities in mobile complex. In addition, other models of malware that joins began attacking the IOS, which so far has a strong defense.
Smartphones and ordinary mobile threats are expected to develop in several ways. First, there are no signs pointing to a decline in SMS Trojan in the short term. SMS Trojan has been and will continue to prove difficult to ban because of weak legal framework in many countries relating to cybercrime.
Second, the growth of Android would be a double-edged sword. Just as Microsoft has been forced to withstand fierce attack from malware as an unparalleled position as the leader of the PC OS, Android rise will likely cause him to become a prime target for viruses and cybercrime.
Third, this trend only showed increased susceptibility of total smartphone in the coming years.
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