Which mobile phone has the most virus?

According to new research by Kaspersky Lab, the most frequently infected mobile devices are those using the most popular platforms, J2ME and Symbian. And the most popular mobile virus is SMS trojans (texting of users).

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Kaspersky Lab has just announced a new study of malicious programs with mobile devices. According to the report, by the end of 2010, the company's experts discovered 153 lines of virus attacking mobile devices and more than 1,000 variants, that is, an increase of 65.12% compared to 2009.

Regarding the number of malicious programs detected, the J2ME platform (Java 2 Micro Edition) - still the most popular platform - is leading platforms that are vulnerable to the number of virus attacks it finds. up to 45, while the number of variants reached 613. In the second place was the Symbian platform with 311 malicious virus variants recorded. Following these platforms are Python , Windows Mobile and Android .

The first virus to attack the Android operating system was recorded in August 2010, and a total of 15 viruses were detected in 2010. According to analysts, in the future there will be a rapid increase in viruses that attack Android with the popularity of this platform itself. There have been only two variants of viruses that attack iPhone, of which they can only infect jailbroken devices.

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Allocate virus variants detected by mobile platforms.

In malicious mobile programs, the top is the type programmed to send SMS messages to phone numbers except for the service fee of the message (but in fact the message is not used by the message). Experts say, SMS-trojan is still the most gentle and effective way to make money for scammers. "In the mobile virus world, secret programs that send SMS to charged phone numbers are still at the forefront. Using SMS-trojans is still the easiest and most effective way to make money with scammers. The reason is simple: any mobile device whether a smartphone or a mobile phone is directly connected to the user's real money, ie with their mobile account. actively taking advantage of this "direct connection" - Denis Maslennikov, Kaspersky Lab's leading antivirus expert.

One of the trends of last year was the appearance of trojans that could call international phone numbers instead of sending SMS. That's Trojan.WinCE.Terdial.a. Another virus (Trojan-Spy.SymbOS.Zbot.a) allows bad guys to bypass SMS user identification with online banking and has been used by bad guys in combination with Zbot malicious code (ZeuS) to perform a comprehensive attack.

In addition, analysts found the general trend of malicious programs for mobile devices and hackers' attacks on mobile devices. Thanks to the rapid growth of mobile Internet, viruses can often interact with bad guys' remote servers to update and receive code. This is what bad guys can use to build ghost mobile networks (mobile botnets).

In general, in the forecast for 2011, Kaspersky Lab experts predict the continued development of SMS-trojan; an increase in the number of viruses that attack Android as well as an increase in attacks from this type of virus. In addition, experts predict a wide spread of spyware (spyware).