India second in list of countries facing cyber attack on mobiles

INDIA is the second-mobile hackers attacks on mobile devices prone country with a major chunk of these intrusions designed for phishing and stealing banking details, a report by security software maker Kaspersky said.
Russian cyber security solutions firm Kaspersky Lab said Russia lopped the list of attacks on mobile phones, accounting for 40.34 per cent of all attacked unique users.
India, with 7.9 per cent of attacks. 

stood at the second spot, followed by Vietnam (3.96 per cent). Ukraine (3.84 per cent) and the UK (3.42 per cent). Other countries in the lop 10 included Germany (3.2 Percent). Kazakhstan (2.88 percent). the US(2.13 percent). Malaysia (2.12 percent) and Iran (2.01 percent).
During 2013. nearly 100,000 new malicious programs for mobile devices were detected, more than double the previous year's figure of 40.059 samples. Kaspersky said. "About 98.1 per cent of all mobile malware detected in 2013 targeted Android devices." it added.
The report also found that about four million malicious applications were used by cyber criminals to distribute mobile malware for Android-based devices. "The majority of mobile malware in 2013 targeted users money." it said.