Chinese anti-virus company NetQin announced that the number of malicious programs for mobile platforms in the first half of 2012 increased significantly: infection were 13 million mobile devices, which is 177% more than in the same period of 2011.
Especially sharp increase was recorded in June 2012, the: infection were 3.7 million smartphones (historical, say, a record.) In the same month, NetQin found 5582 malicious programs written specifically for Android.
Approximately 78% of malicious programs for Android is being written, much of the rest of Celite on Nokia Symbian OS. In the past year, the situation seemed diametrically opposite:
60% of malicious applications aimed at users Symbian, the rest - mainly the owners of the devices based on Android. In fact, China is now in Android#39;s market share is 68%, so the attention of virus writers to it is not surprising.
Although this is only about the Chinese market, malicious programs on the political boundaries do not care. According to figures from NetQin, about 25% malware is of Chinese origin, 17% comes from Russia and 16.5% - of the United States.
Material: internetua.com
