Mobile malware almost triples in the second quarter: Kaspersky


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 05 Aug 2015

Malware alert: A new report says that people who use smartphone apps to perform online banking are being targeted by hackers. Photo: AFP Relaxnews

According to a report published by Kaspersky Lab, malware mainly targeting mobile banking has grown 2.8 times from April to June 2015 compared to the period from January to March.

That’s a total of 291,800 mobile malware programs, more than half of which were launched from malicious web resources located in Russia, according to the report.

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