NEW DELHI: Viruses and worms spreading through incandescence drives along with tower in malware targeting Android OS are the foremost trends of malware landscape in India in 2013, predicts ESET, a provider of security solutions to businesses and consumers.
Although throughout 2012 detections related to obvious malware (like INF/Autorun) have been decreasing in India, the threat continues. USB flare drives are yet an effective route of compromising computers. One of the reasons, according to ESET researchers, is that users are prone to installing pirated software including OS itself along with pirated security software, if at all the latter is installed on the system. Besides, a very necessary security utilize as scanning removable media with security software is ignored by majority of Indian computer users.
Malware for mobile phones was marked a leading trend of 2012 in last year's ESET report. This time researcher focused on malware for Android OS as the market share of Android mobile phones have been increasing dramatically, according to a release.
In Q1 of 2012, according to IDC statistics, the Google operating bearing has recorded a year-over-year surge of 145% in market share. Furthermore, Juniper in its white paper 'Banking Anytime Anywhere' estimates that in 2013, the number of users accessing banking services from their smartphones will ascend to 530 million commonwealth. According to the same study, in 2011 there were only 300 million individuals who accessed banks from their phones.
"There are over 27 million smartphone users in India, according to different estimations. Though it comes to about only 3% of sum mobile phone users in the state, we see the immense growth of smartphone practice. Moreover, equable the majority of cheap handsets run Android OS. Although we didn't register many cases of Android malware in India, comparing to some other countries, once Indian will start actively using their mobiles for online shopping, banking, etc. the characterize will change," says Pankaj Jain, director at ESET India.
Not only an exponential growth of mobile malware but the fact that malware is becoming more complex thus expanding the rage of malicious actions they realize on an infected device makes it the chief anxiety for security community in 2013.
ESET highlights another tenor: the malware propagation by means of removable storage devices is decreasing globally in favor of the habit of an intermediary in command to attract original victims. Simply speaking, instead of compromising system through infected gleam drives and other removable media, bad guys settle web servers to legion malware and then sending out the hyperlinks dominant the users to the malware.
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