Hackers have desire on smart phones with Android

Number of new malicious programs for mobile operating system Android this year in the second quarter for the first time has surpassed the most challenged by the Java and Symbian OS Finnish company Nokia. Number of threats for Android risen by three quarters. , According to statistics from the antivirus company McAfee.

“Malicious code for Android could pass for calendaring applications, programs for working with SMS messages or may be a false update. Some programs simply work, while others attempt a more comprehensive use of the infected phone,” said spokeswoman Elizabeth McAfee Hanibal. Example, programs can delete incoming SMS messages or, conversely, send SMS messages to numbers with a higher tariff, or steal private data and send.

According to a report in the second quarter for the first time appeared fake antivirus programs for Apple computers, which is related to expansion of the Mac OS in a corporate environment. Number of hidden malicious programs that cybercriminals are deploying against large companies or critical infrastructure grew by 38 percent. In the second quarter was the large number of attacks and part of the group Anonymous LulzSec. LulzSec Especially in recent years apparently responsible for many intersections. For selection of targets seems worth no ideology and action groups can be so difficult to predict, said McAfee.