Android Ransomware Growing at Fast Rate, Remains ‘Full-Scale Global Threat’
SputnikNews.com
24.02.2017
Cybersecurity experts in Britain have conducted research which shows that the amount of ransomware associated with the Android phones increased by 50 percent in 2016.
Ransomware, which describes a type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid, has increased over recent months.
Cybersecurity firm ESET UK, has revealed that the amount of ransomware detected on Google’s mobile operating system, Android, has increased significantly over 2016. They said that throughout the whole year, mobile malware authors used copy techniques similar to desktop malware, as well as developing their own sophisticated methods for targeting devices.
The report also claims that cybercriminals have been making more of an effort to keep a low profile, and they do this by encrypting and burying their malicious payload deeper in infected apps.
“Altogether we saw an increase in Android malware detection by around 20 percent, with ransomware on this platform growing at ever faster rate,” said ESET’s chief technology officer Juraj Malcho, who will speak on the subject at Mobile World Congress 2017.
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