Mobile phone virus grows rapidly in the world

Release date：2015-01-29   Views：2473

With the popularity of mobile Internet, smart phones make people's lives more and more convenient, from personal privacy such as contact information, SMS, photos to social networking, email, shopping and financial management. However, people's dependence on smart phones is also deepening, and mobile phone security issues are becoming increasingly prominent. Snowden incident, Hollywood star photo gate, 12306 website leaking user information Both at home and abroad, up to the country and down to ordinary people, are facing similar security threats. On the one hand, this threat urges governments to step up the formulation of network security prevention and control measures, on the other hand, it also brings huge business opportunities to the security market, especially the secure mobile phone market. Anti virus software, mobile phone manufacturers, and even operators have played a "safety card" to start the mobile phone security war.

89 million mobile phones infected in half a year

"The world will enter the era of smart phones." Global smartphone shipments in 2014 were 1.167 billion, an increase of 25.9% compared with 2013, according to data released on the 20th by Jibang technology, a market research institution. In addition, according to the smart phone market trend report released by emarketer, the number of global smartphone users in 2014 was 1.64 billion, of which the number of Chinese smartphone users exceeded 500 million for the first time, and the global smartphone users will exceed 2 billion in 2016.

According to the 2014 annual security report released by cheetah mobile security laboratory, the data shows that computer viruses have decreased significantly, while mobile phone viruses and phishing websites have soared. The black industry chain is rapidly impacting the security of mobile Internet, and bundling and promoting rogue software has become the main profit point of mobile phone virus. China has become the country with the highest number of smartphone poisoning in the world. In 2014, 120 million Android mobile phones were poisoned, accounting for 42.85% of the total number of poisoned mobile phones in the world (120 million / 280 million).

Contrary to the gradual decline of computer viruses, the number of mobile phone viruses and phishing websites continues to grow rapidly

Some communication experts said that there are two main security issues related to the vital interests of ordinary people: privacy security and payment security. In the past, if we were not in front of the computer, it was "not online", and we would not be attacked. Now, everyone uses smart phones to be "online" at any time. Mobile phones are connected to the network. Because of the cloud, personal information and phone number will be synchronized to the Internet, which means that your information may be leaked through matching search at any time. In the process of surfing the Internet, people are often required to log in the user name and password, real name registration of personal information. When a person needs to log in to a lot of web pages or ports, he will feel very troublesome, and will naturally use a password, which provides a criminal with a chance to commit a crime. In addition, people's mobile phones are often bundled with bank accounts.

During the "double 11" period in 2014, more than half of the online shopping of Chinese consumers was completed through mobile phones, which shows that we rely more and more on mobile Internet. However, spam messages and malicious software may invade the user system every day. In the first half of 2014, about 89 million users were infected by mobile phone virus, and the direct economic loss caused by the theft of user's personal information and the disclosure of trading account each year exceeded 10 billion yuan.

Nowadays, smart phones, especially Android mobile phones, are open source systems, which are easy to be embedded in Trojans. Once implanted, mobile phone users' calls, SMS, account information will be leaked, and even the phone's recording and camera functions can be controlled. Moreover, the cost of this trojan horse implantation is getting lower and lower, and the means are more and more hidden.

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