Report: 99 Percent of New Mobile Threats Target Android

MojoKid writes: "Google's open source Android platform has the distinction of being the most popular mobile operating system in the world. That's great in terms of dominating the market and reaping the rewards that come with it, but it's also for that very reason that Android finds itself the target of virtually every new mobile malware threat that emerges. According to data published in F-Secure's latest Mobile Threat Report (PDF), over 99 percent of the new mobile threats it discovered in the first quarter of 2014 targeted Android users. To be fair, we're not taking about hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands, or thousands of malware threats — F-Secure detected 277 new threat families, of which 275 honed in on Android."

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Market Share

[presspass]

When Apple gets the market share that Android has, you'll see that Apple gets as many attacks as Android does.

Re:secure from what?

[Anonymous Coward]

This is probably worse for iOS than being insecure.

Their marketshare has fallen so far it's not worth targeting them any more.

Speaking as an iOS user, I'm perfectly fine with you Android users getting all of the malware love. No really... you can keep all of it... I don't want any!