23 August 2011

Android Most Targeted Mobile Malware in Q2 2011: McAfee | #mobile #hackers #infosec

Google's Android has overtaken Java Micro Edition as the most attacked mobile platform, McAfee said in its latest quarterly threat report.

Out of about 1,200 mobile malware samples that McAfee Labs collected and analyzed in the second quarter of 2011, about 60 percent were aimed at Android, McAfee said in its 2011 Threats Report for the second quarter. While mobile malware remains a tiny fraction of the overall malware market, Android is clearly the criminals' favorite target, McAfee said.

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