Mobile malware is increasing

Cyber ​​threats are increasingly mushrooming. In addition to viruses or malware, phishing threats also continue to lurk in the internet users around the world, including Indonesia.
It says Business Development Manager Kaspersky Lab Southeast Asia Dony Koesmandarin, with the increasing number of smartphone users grows, the threat to users has now spread to mobile devices, such as cell phones and tablet PCs.

Mobile Malware

In the first quarter of this year alone, there were 22,750 new malicious program modifications that target mobile devices. This figure is almost half of the total number of modifications to the previous year totaled 40 059 modification.
"The cyber criminals increasingly clever use of the various opportunities that exist for their action," says Dony Koesmandarin the media gathering in Jakarta this week.

"The average smartphone users also access the Internet through their devices. This further increase the chances of cyber criminals to infect the user's device," he continued.
This is evidenced by recent reports that Kaspersky Lab states, the number of Internet users who become victims of phishing attacks in the last 12 months increased from 19.9 million users to 37.3 million users. This figure jumped as much as 87%.

Security research also revealed if Facebook, Yahoo, Google and Amazon are often used as 'weapon' cyber criminals to trick internet users.
The survey, conducted in June 2013 by taking the data from Kaspersky Security Network cloud service, shows that phishing, which originally was part of spam, has now become its own cyber threats and growing rapidly.