CIOReview Team | Monday, 25 January 2016, 05:54 IST
INDIA, January 25th, 2016 – Cheetah Mobile, the world’s leading mobile utility provider committed to providing a safer, faster and simpler mobile internet experience, today announced findings from its latest global mobile security report focused on Android devices.
The report details the growth of viruses, phishing sites, malwares, infected devices across major markets (including India), data leakages, and rounds out with security predictions for 2016. The Company’s annual security report is cumulative data based on 567 million global monthly active users and an overall install base of almost two billion users using Cheetah Mobile’s utility applications on their devices.
In summary, the key trends in mobile security for 2015 were:
China, India and Indonesia were the three most severely afflicted countries. Apart from large Android user bases, another reason of these countries becoming the worst-hit ones is that third-party app markets are prevailing in these areas, and most of these third-party app markets have been contaminated by malwares due to the weak monitoring of third-party app markets.
Biggest Data Leaks
Anthem: 80 million customers’ and employees’ personal information
OPM: About 27 million employees’ and applicants’ personal information
Ashley Madison: 37million users’ personal information
Hacking Team: 400GBof data was leaked and scattered on the internet
The graph above represents the number of unique infections detected across all devices that Cheetah Mobile is present on in that market. Please note that this number doesn’t represent the total number of devices that Cheetah Mobile’s applications are installed on in that particular country but only the individual devices that were infected over the span of 2015.
In the graphs below, one each for China, the United States, and India, the numbers showcase the number of infections overall. The data here means that a single device could have multiple infections multiple times over the course of a year.
Total infections in India: 11,170,960
Total infections in China: 10,461,684
Total infections in America: 9,007,913
And finally, here’s an image depicting the Trojans causing the most infections among devices in India.
A Trojan horse or Trojan is a type of malware that is often disguised as legitimate software. Trojans can be employed by cyber-thieves and hackers trying to gain access to users' systems. Users are typically tricked by some form of social engineering into loading and executing Trojans on their systems. The manner in which they behave differs – some hides in users’ mobile devices to steal text messages, contact information, location data, and even personal photos. Others, like Ghost Push, obtains root access to the affected device and installs more malicious apps and a never ending stream of ads.
Mobile Security Predictions for 2016
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