By Nathan Eddy, eWeek
Extra security prompts when downloading Google Android version 4.2 Jelly Bean should help deflect Trojans, the F-Secure report predicted. Android malware continued to gain in share in 2012 and was responsible for 79 percent of all threats for the year, up from 66 percent in 2011, according to security specialist F-Secure’s latest Mobile Threat report. In the fourth quarter alone, 96 new families and variants of Android threats were discovered, which almost doubles the number recorded in the previous quarter. A large share of the Android threats found in the fourth quarter was malware that generates profit through fraudulent short message service (SMS) practices, with 21 of the 96 Android threat variants found contributed by Premium SMS, a malware family that sends out messages to premium rate numbers.
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