Safety: mobile malwares, a growing threat 2007-08-22
Up to now, the majority of the malevolent programs aiming at the mobile peripherals were only evidence of concept (proof of concept), i.e. theoretical possibilities that such or such exploit could be carried out, or many worms asking a considerable number of interactions with the victim. However, the experts in safety estimate that the authors of malwares constantly accentuate their efforts to encrust themselves in the mobile peripherals.
Within the framework of his Report/ratio of semi-annual Safety Internet, the researchers of Symantec had thus quoted the mobile threats among the 10 larger preoccupations with a safety of 2007. According to those of F-Secure, another editor of solutions of computer security, there are already more than 370 mobile threats which circulate, some of them being able to lead to the suppression of data stored on compounds or to the recording of the conversations of the end-users.
For the next year, the salesmen of solutions of safety expect that news attacks target the systems of financial transactions usable via the portable telephones and the holders of mobile telephones a little less sophisticated. “Like the market of the smartphones extends, it y will have more and more attacks, because the activity of the malevolent software always targeted where the impact is broadest”, declared Jan Volzke, director of mobile safety at McAfee. “There will be more viruses written to attack simpler compounds, based on Java, because there are much more users to have such compounds today”, has T it affirmed.
