Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Alcatel-Lucent reports : Strong increase in cyber attacks on smartphones

Alcatel-Lucent on Tuesday released its report new information showing that "security threats for the fixed and mobile high-speed networks  increase at the same time  the number of users in the world."c
The second quarter report 2013 prepared by the subsidiary Kindsight 's Alcatel-Lucent "reported a sharp increase in the number of malicious software (or malware) used by attackers to access terminals and industrial espionage or people steal personal information, generate massive amounts of spam, launch denial of service in business and government, and steal millions of euros through fraud (scams) banking and advertising. "
The latest quarterly report on malware published by Kindsight Security Labs shows that 10% of domestic and 0.5% of mobile devices networks have been infected by malware, and that these figures are up from the previous quarter.
Among the other findings of this report, we learn that 6% of home networks have been the target of threats such as high level bots, rootkits (stealth programs) and bank virus type Trojan horses, all malware infecting computers and computer programs and applications they use.
In mobile networks, the vast majority of infected terminals are either Android phones or Windows laptops connected to a phone or connect directly via USB or an Access Point MIFI.
In addition, "the number of malware targeting mobile devices continues to grow and has increased sixfold on Android devices," said Alcatel-Lucent .
"The malware and cybercrime are a growing problem for home networks and mobile devices, including Android smartphones and tablets become targets of more frequent," said Kevin McNamee, security architect and director of Kindsight Security Labs " Alcatel-Lucent . The latter states that "users do not always protect their mobile devices as they should, even if they do, a malicious application can easily evade anti-virus installed."

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