Panda: Mobile Phone Adware / Malware increases

Panda: Mobile Phone Adware / Malware increases. Panda Security, an anti-virus firm is reporting that Adware accounted for the most malware infections in the first quarter of 2008 - and it predicts a rise in mobile phone viruses.

"Mobile phone viruses have been a looming threat for years," the report says. "In Q1 we must highlight the SymbOS/Beselo and WinCE/InfoJack.A, but more importantly the appearance of the first iPhone Trojan. The release of Apple's SDK will probably cause the appearance of more sophisticated iPhone attacks and infections, or even 'iMalware'."

At the same time, Panda's report notes that Symbian's mobile operating system remains the most popular mobile OS in the world and that popularity is what is attracting malware. According to Panda, 90.34% of mobile malware targets the Symbian platform, 4.14% targets Windows Mobile, 3.35% targets Palm OS, and 2.07% targets J2ME.

"The truth is, Symbian is still the top platform in the global market and therefore the most attractive to mobile phone malware creators," the report says.

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