Android will become the Main Target Attack "Malware"

Android phone users seem to have to be careful and further enhance the security of mobile phones. The reason, a study conducted McAfee, the antivirus which is owned Intel, found that the primary target for mobile malware is new is the Android device.

McAfee also adds, in the third quarter of 2011, up 37 percent of malware Android. Although lower than that reached the second quarter increased 76 percent, but this figure shows malware on Android devices is a real threat.

At the end of 2010, McAfee estimated that malware will never reach 70 million unique samples until the end of 2011, but in fact, not until the end of the year, 75 million samples of malware has been attacking.

Based on research conducted McAfee, malware authors take advantage of the popularity of Android devices as well as its security weaknesses. One form of fraud bervirus the most popular in the third quarter is the sender of an SMS Trojan that collects personal information and steal money from there. Another method is to steal user information from records telephone conversations and send it automatically to the hackers.

Other types of security attacks is a fake antivirus. In addition, the emergence of counterfeit and stolen password autorun also increased. Meanwhile, spam remains at its lowest level since 2007. For botnet infections, overall slight decline in the third quarter, but has a significant improvement in Argentina, Indonesia, Russia, and Venezuela.

Another study conducted Juniper And Hoffman, chief analyst at Jupiter analytical agency found the virus is a traditional hacker community is very similar to the group of hackers for the PC. "Included among the children aged fifteen years has been able to hide malicious content into the application," explains Hoffman.

Hoffman further stated, exponential growth in malware Android has occurred since July 2011. Hackers often create pirated applications that are similar to legitimate applications so that users download the application Andoroid which is actually an artificial virus hackers.

This happens due to weak controls on the Google applications that can be installed on the Android Market. Even though Google eventually finds and removes some applications that are proven false, but Google's Android could not prevent users who have been required to download a virus and become infected.