India 2nd among cyber attacks

Ever thought your Mobile is safe? Think again.

Well this shouldn't come as a surprise that majority of crimes, frauds committed these days are "FOR" mobiles. With a Population of 1.237 billion (as of 2012) and an estimated 91 Crore mobile phone users India 2nd on the list of countries facing cyber attack on mobiles.

Question here is what’s cyber attack? What would they get by this attack?

Well it could be summed up in easy words that it's an attempt by hackers to tear down a network. It's basically the breach of security provided by your manufacturer.

For 2nd question, it's simpler. Majority of bills are paid by using a credit/debit card using a mobile phone. So the intention of this attack is to steal your Card Number and Password.

According to Russian Cyber Security Solutions firm, Kaspersky Lab, said Russia topped the list of attacks on mobile phones, hold to be 40.30% (Russia approximately has 27 crore mobile users) which means over 10 crore mobile phones users in Russia are attacked. India, with 7.9% of attacks (nearly 7 crore 50 lakh mobile phones) stood 2nd. While Vietnam with (3.96%) is 3rd followed by Ukraine (3.84%) and the UK (3.42%).

This is no rocket science that majority of the users worldwide are Android users. Android is seen as the future of Desktops. Co-incidentally about 98.1% mobile malwares detected in 2013 targeted Android Devices. Android offers free to download apps from Google play store. Many of these banking apps are designed so as to appear real but in reality are exact clones.

Banking Trojans are by far the most dangerous type of mobile malware for users which are intended to steal money from bank accounts rather than from victim's mobile account.

It's an old saying that "The more popular you are the more vulnerable you are". Same is the case with Android, on being the top target for such attacks. Android OS architecture was under a severe threat due to the increase in Android Banking Trojans in 2013.

Cyber criminals have now become so more desperate with this method of making money. At the beginning of 2013 there were 64 known Trojans known as Banking Trojans, but by the fall of 2013 Kaspersky Lab's collected 1,321 unique samples.

Android base in India has seen a tremendous growth in last 2-3 years. It's expected that this crime may see a rise in the present year (2014) too.