Smart phones and social networking sites are likely to become the next large target for cyber criminals, according to a security industry report.
Symantec’s annual threat analysis informs that the technologies are more and more being used to spread malicious code.
Users of Facebook, Twitter and Google’s mobile operating system, Android, are said to be mostly susceptible.
However, the number of attacks remnants little judges against to other online crimes such as e-mail phishing.
According to Symantec, recognized vulnerabilities in mobile operating systems rose from 115 in 2009 to 163 in 2010.
In several cases, the security holes were broken and used to install harmful software on Android handsets – suggesting that criminals now view smartphone hacking as a potentially lucrative area .
At least six different varieties of malware were exposed hidden in applications that were spread through a Chinese download service.
Orla Cox, security operations manager at Symantec said, “It is something we have started to see happen, albeit on a small level.”
“It allows people to do a variety of things from intercepting SMS messages to dialling toll numbers. They have opened up the possibility of what is there.”
“Many pieces of malware were also found on iPhones, however only devices that had been “jailbroken” to bypass Apple’s security were exaggerated.”
The company’s process of pre-vetting all new applications is supposed to have spared its devices from a main attack.
Symantec’s annual threat analysis informs that the technologies are more and more being used to spread malicious code.Users of Facebook, Twitter and Google’s mobile operating system, Android, are said to be mostly susceptible.
However, the number of attacks remnants little judges against to other online crimes such as e-mail phishing.
According to Symantec, recognized vulnerabilities in mobile operating systems rose from 115 in 2009 to 163 in 2010.
In several cases, the security holes were broken and used to install harmful software on Android handsets – suggesting that criminals now view smartphone hacking as a potentially lucrative area .
At least six different varieties of malware were exposed hidden in applications that were spread through a Chinese download service.
Orla Cox, security operations manager at Symantec said, “It is something we have started to see happen, albeit on a small level.”
“It allows people to do a variety of things from intercepting SMS messages to dialling toll numbers. They have opened up the possibility of what is there.”
“Many pieces of malware were also found on iPhones, however only devices that had been “jailbroken” to bypass Apple’s security were exaggerated.”
The company’s process of pre-vetting all new applications is supposed to have spared its devices from a main attack.
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