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Mobile Malware Evolution Threatens Smartphone Users in Syria
As the dust from Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress 2010 settles, mobile malware is here to stay and cost millions of dollars to unsuspected GSM users around the world according to a latest report from Kaspersky Lab, a leading international developer of secure content management solutions.
The debut, last year, of malware designed to contact remote servers has opened new profiteering horizons for cybercriminals including SMS Trojans.
Mobile malware attacks are less likely to concentrate on a single operating system, as is the case with Windows in computers since the struggle for market share in the arena of mobile operating systems continues, deterring virus writers from concentrating their efforts on a single operating system. However, 2009 was a year during which mobile malware came of age with the first iPhone malware in the form of the Ike worm, the creation of the first spyware targeting Android and the identification of the first signed malware for Symbian smartphones.
In 2009, 39 new mobile malware families and 257 new mobile malware variants were identified. This is in comparison to the 30 new families and 143 new modifications identified in 2008, an indication that this year is likely to see a proliferation of mobile attacks.
