“Kaspersky Lab” summed up the activity virus writers in the third quarter of 2012. According to the results of the quarter, analysts have identified “gastronomic predilections” malicious programs about versions of the Android platform and new incidents of cyber espionage.
The trend of rapid growth of new mobile malware for Android has continued in the last quarter. So experts “Kaspersky Lab” decided to determine which versions of the users most likely to be targets of attacks.
Most of the attacks were of version 2.3.6 «Gingerbread» and 4.0.4 «Ice Cream Sandwich».
To “Gingerbread” platform had 28% of reflected attempts to install malicious software during the quarter. Although the system is not new and was released in September 2011, due to a strong market segmentation Android-devices, this version and to this day remains one of the most popular, which in turn causes an increased interest of virus writers. Comparing our results with the official figures on the distribution of the various versions of Android mobile devices in the last 14 days of September, we see that in 48% of cases, the victims were criminals users version Gingerbread, which is set at 55% of the devices, and 43% – the most users latest version of Android Ice Cream Sandwich, installed on 23.7% of devices. (more…)
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