TOTAL malicious programs that target mobile devices more than doubled, between August 2009 and December 2010.
Kaspersky Lab in a press release explaining last year more than 65% of new threats that target mobile devices, detected compared with last year.
And more than 1,000 variants of 153 different families belonging to a threat on mobile devices, included in Kaspersky Lab's database late last year.
Denis Maslennikov, senior malware analyst at Kaspersky Lab, and author of Mobile Malware Evolution: An Overview Part 4, describes a list of platforms that became the target of malicious programs expanded in 2010.
The growing popularity of the Android platform, believed to have attracted the attention of cyber criminals. In August last year, the first malicious program that targets Android detected. The number reached 15 courses from a total of 7 families.
As for Apple's iPhone OS device that has infected only in the 'Jailbreak' to be able to install the game from third parties, and other software that is not produced by Apple.
Kaspersky Lab in a press release explaining last year more than 65% of new threats that target mobile devices, detected compared with last year.
And more than 1,000 variants of 153 different families belonging to a threat on mobile devices, included in Kaspersky Lab's database late last year.
Denis Maslennikov, senior malware analyst at Kaspersky Lab, and author of Mobile Malware Evolution: An Overview Part 4, describes a list of platforms that became the target of malicious programs expanded in 2010.
The growing popularity of the Android platform, believed to have attracted the attention of cyber criminals. In August last year, the first malicious program that targets Android detected. The number reached 15 courses from a total of 7 families.
As for Apple's iPhone OS device that has infected only in the 'Jailbreak' to be able to install the game from third parties, and other software that is not produced by Apple.
In general threat on target mobile device platforms Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME), which supported a large number of mobile devices. In other words, not only smartphones that have a risk of becoming infected, a mobile phone can also be affected.
''This means that an attack launched by the threat on mobile devices, has reached a level that is really new,''said Maslennikov.
The second most targeted platform is Symbian, and Python in third place
