Mobile malware evolution

The year 2016 saw a near-threefold rise in mobile malware detections compared to 2015 – with a total of 8.5 million malicious installations identified, according to an IT security product company.
This means that, in one year, a volume equivalent to 50 per cent of all the malware detected in the previous 11 years (15.77 million in 2004 – 2015) was released. Mobile advertising Trojans now make up 16 of the top 20 malicious programmes, compared with 12 in 2015. These are findings in Ka