Mobile malware review for 2015

December 30, 2015

Doctor Web presents its mobile malware review for 2015. In the past year, Android devices suffered numerous attacks from various malicious programs, such as SMS, banking, and ransomware Trojans. Moreover, a big number of new aggressive advertising modules appeared. New cases of Android firmware being infected with malicious applications were also registered. One of the main trend of 2015 is a spread of Trojans that try to get root privileges by infecting the Android system directory with different rootkits. At the same time, security researchers detected new malware programs for iOS-based devices.