McAfee: Cyber criminals using Android malware and ransomware the most

 .....the company witnessed a 40 increase in Android malware, a near-300-percent jump in instances of Facebook-threat Koobface, and a steady rise in ransomware and reported infections. Add to that an increase in AutoRun malware, malware that attacks MBRs (master boot records), and a doubling of spam worldwide, and the state of security looks bleak.....

....Among the key findings in report, McAfee revealed that it now has a total of 50,926 mobile malware samples in its database, 28 percent of which arrived this year.....

.....McAfee has witnessed more instances of malicious spyware being combined with botnets. Among them is Android/Ssucl.A, a Trojan that poses as a system cleanup utility but is really a botnet client. It not only steals user and SMS data, it also launches phishing attacks for Dropbox and Google log-ins. It tries to infect PCs using an autorun.inf attack too.....

....... "Within the enterprise, we see password-stealing Trojans evolving to become information-gathering tools for cyber espionage attacks. Whether they target login credentials or intellectual property and trade secrets, highly targeted attacks are achieving new levels of sophistication.".....

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