nokia Nokia To Smartphone Owners: Malware Infections Are Far Higher Than You Think

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Nokia To Smartphone Owners: Malware Infections Are Far Higher Than You Think

 

Nokia warns that mobile malware infections grew dramatically in the second half of 2016.

 

Overall, the monthly smartphone infection rate averaged 0.90 percent, an 83 percent increase over the first half of 2016.

 

Nokia no longer makes mobile devices but it's carving out a new business in mobile and Internet of Things security. Now new research from the unit is reporting a 83 percent rise in monthly smartphone infections in the second half of 2016.

 

Two years ago Verizon challenged assumptions about the spread of mobile malware, reporting that just 0.03 percent of smartphones on its network were infected with 'higher-grade' malware. It was much lower than the 0.68 percent infection rate estimated in Kindsight Security Labs' biannual report.

 

But a new report from Nokia, based on data from mobile networks that have deployed its NetGuard Endpoint Security, suggests infections are actually far higher.

 

According to Nokia, the monthly rate of infections in mobile networks peaked at 1.35 percent in October, and averaged 1.08 percent in the second half of 2016. The average infection rate in the first half was 0.66 percent, translating to a 63 percent rise between the periods.

 

It also measured monthly infections on smartphones and says the average rate was 0.9 percent in the second half, up 83 percent from 0.49 percent in the first half.

 

Over the entire year, it says smartphone infections rose a whopping 400 percent.

 

Nokia's data included around 100 million devices across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. It says that 81 percent of infections were on Android devices, 15 percent on Windows devices, and four percent on iPhones and other mobile devices. It notes that Windows share of infections it counted shrank from 22 percent in the first half of 2016.

 

Although Nokia's report doesn't exclusively deal with Android, it offers a contrast to Google's assessment of malware infections in its Android Security 2016 Year in Review report, released earlier this month.

 

Google reported Android device infections at 0.64 percent in the first quarter of 2016 growing to 0.77 percent in the second quarter, and then moving to 0.67 percent and 0.71 percent in the third and fourth quarters, respectively.

 

Google's measure is based on the frequency it finds PHAs or potentially harmful applications during a "routine full-device scan" with its Verify Apps Android anti-malware service.

 

Google said since 2014 infections on Android have been less than one percent. It also noted that users were 10 times more likely to download malware from outside Google Play than inside its store in 2016.

 

While Nokia reports that infections on mobile networks are increasing, infections on fixed-line residential networks have been falling since the beginning of 2015, despite a bump in early 2016 due to a surge in adware.

 

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[namek]

Because legit apps behave like malware. Google is doing nothing to prevent that. Most apps in google play store are malwares, ripoffs and scams. And users don't bother to check the permissions.

[steven36]

1 hour ago, namek said:

Because legit apps behave like malware. Google is doing nothing to prevent that. Most apps in google play store are malwares, ripoffs and scams. And users don't bother to check the permissions.

Microsoft never stopped no one from making legit apps acting like malware ether ..Android is a very young OS  compared to Windows and it took the market by storm like Windows did. Back in the late 90s early 2000s almost all free apps came bundled with spyware and people were self infecting themselves  to download music and you had to love it when you worked on someones pc back then because they was infected with porn popups because they been on the wrong sites . Google is an ad company as in adware , adware and malware kind of go hand and hand . They get rich showing people ads and harvesting peoples data regrades if the ad was malicious or not so i would except  no less from them . Same thing is true with software in android just like they pay people to use  there ads,  they pay app vendors cash to collect data from there apps and Google get rich regardless if the app is malicious are not..  (Admob program)

 

LOL  thereis  many windows freeware and shareware apps today that if you don't block them they collect data for Google and others and I seen some that acted just like malware that if you block them they attached to other programs.   When you install something if you dont read the toss before you install them you dont know WTF you agreed too . Many programs millions  of people use  I dont want them installed on my PC because Ive monitored them with a ip sniffer and looked at the TOSS .   Windows is bad enough  to block without infecting myself with other data harvesting stuff  

[namek]

I hate Microsoft much more than Google.

[Kokain]

Whaaat? Nokia stopped making phones? I call bullshit and I want to see source. I still have my trusty Nokia 100 here