{"id":66920,"date":"2012-12-28T14:18:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T12:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=66920"},"modified":"2012-12-28T14:32:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T12:32:36","slug":"explosion-of-android-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/66920-explosion-of-android-threats.html","title":{"rendered":"Explosion of Android threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaspersky Lab released its annual Kaspersky Security Bulletin recently, revealing that 99% of all mobile malware detected in 2012 was designed for the Android platform.<\/p>\n<p>During 2011, Kaspersky Lab witnessed an explosion in the number of malicious threats targeting the Android platform.<\/p>\n<p>The company predicted that the number of threats for Android will continue to grow at an alarming rate, and this prediction proved to be prophetic.<\/p>\n<p>The number of samples Kaspersky Lab received continued to grow and peaked in June 2012, when they identified almost 7,000 malicious Android programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, in 2012, we identified more than 35,000 malicious Android programs, which is about six times more than in 2011. That\u2019s also about five times more than all the malicious Android samples we\u2019ve received since 2005 altogether,\u201d said Kaspersky Lab.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kaspersky Lab the reason for the huge growth of Android can be explained by two factors: economic and platform related.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Android platform itself has become incredibly popular, becoming the most widespread OS for new phones, with over 70% market share.<\/li>\n<li>The open nature of the operating system, the ease with which apps can be created and the wide variety of (unofficial) application markets have combined to shine a negative spotlight on the security posture of the Android platform.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_66924\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/66920-explosion-of-android-threats.html\/attachment\/the-growth-of-android-malware\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66924\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66924\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66924\" title=\"The growth of Android Malware\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/The-growth-of-Android-Malware.jpg\" alt=\"The growth of Android Malware\" width=\"600\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/The-growth-of-Android-Malware.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/The-growth-of-Android-Malware-100x68.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/The-growth-of-Android-Malware-185x126.jpg 185w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/The-growth-of-Android-Malware-250x170.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-66924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The growth of Android Malware<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cLooking forward, there is no doubt this trend will continue, just like it did with Windows malware many years ago. We are therefore expecting 2013 to be filled with targeted attacks against Android users, zero-days and data leaks,\u201d said Kaspersky Lab.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Microsoft launches anti-Android campaign\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/66354-microsoft-launches-anti-android-campaign.html\"><strong>Microsoft launches anti-Android campaign<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kaspersky finds new \u201chigh-value\u201d malware\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/62318-kaspersky-finds-new-high-value-malware.html\"><strong>Kaspersky finds new \u201chigh-value\u201d malware<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Cyberattacks on the rise\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/61714-cyberattacks-on-the-rise.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cyberattacks on the rise<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Hackers breach university servers\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/61394-hackers-breach-university-servers.html\">Hackers breach university servers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Anonymous leader arrested\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/59865-anonymous-leader-arrested.html\">Anonymous leader arrested<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>99% of all mobile malware detected by Kaspersky Lab in 2012 was designed for the Android platform<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":55789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[397,35,799],"class_list":["post-66920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-android","tag-headline","tag-kaspersky-lab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67580,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66920\/revisions\/67580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}