Mobile Malware Threats Q3 2013 – F-Secure

As per F-Secure labs, 259 new mobile threat families and variants of existing families were discovered in the third quarter of 2013. The growing concern in Google Play are the apps that violate privacy by over collection of data.  Screenshots from below from F-Secure reports shows the threats.

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“People understand there’s something questionable about giving their information to big data, yet they give a lot of the same information to questionable apps all the time” says Sean Sullivan, Security Advisor at F-Secure Labs.

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Link to F-Secure threat report

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