Android platform Malware increased by 35% last quarter

McAfee Lab reports says that Malware under Android platform has grew up by 35% last quarter.This is recorded to be the highest growth rate since 2012.These Malwares are designed to steal the banking information of users credit or debit cards and also fraudlent dating and entertainment apps ,malicious apps posing as usefull tools.

Backdoor trojans and banking malware were the most popular threats this quater.

“We counted more than 17,000 new Android samples during this period. The year is certain to establish another record. New malware of all types exceeded 18 million this quarter, pushing our all-time tally to more than 147 million binaries,” Mcafee report said.

The second quarter also saw a 16 percent increase in suspicious URLs, a 50 percent increase in digitally-signed malware samples, and notable events in the cyber-attack and espionage areas, including multiple attacks on the global Bitcoin infrastructure and revelations around the Operation Troy network targeting U.S. and South Korean military assets.McAfee Labs registered twice as many new ransomware samples in Q2 as in Q1, raising the 2013 ransomware count higher than the total found in all previous periods combined.The second quarter also saw a 16 percent increase in suspicious URLs, a 50 percent increase in digitally-signed malware samples, and notable events in the cyber-attack and espionage areas, including multiple attacks on the global Bitcoin infrastructure and revelations around the Operation Troy network targeting U.S. and South Korean military assets.

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