In the third quarter increased the number of threats to mobile platforms

252 out of 259 new families of malicious software created for the platform Android, and only 7 - for Symbian.

The company F-Secure Labs, dedicated to security issues , published a report for the third quarter of 2013 on threats to mobile platforms. According to a document from July to September, it was discovered 259 new families of malicious software and versions of existing viruses. 252 of them are created for the Android platform, and only 7 - for Symbian. Note that in the second quarter, the number of new families of malware has reached 205.

Most of the detected threats ( 88%) - Trojan Horses, 2.7% - Trojans, spyware, trojans 1.6% of downloaders. 2.3 % was contributed by malicious applications, 1.9 % - the share of instruments to monitor, at 0.4 % - on the exploits, tools for hacking, trojan droppers and spyware.

In addition, in July of this year, he discovered a new set of tools Androrat APK, simplifying the process of introducing malicious code into legitimate Android - application. According to the report , increasing not only the number of malware for mobile platforms - malware is constantly being improved and become more complicated. For example, every fifth threat - it's a bot.

One in Ten Consumers Have Lost Money to Online Fraud

The study showed that the majority of victims of online fraud live in the UK, USA and Malaysia.

One in ten Internet users in the world is becoming a victim of fraud in the implementation of online transactions. In this case, the most high level of risk are users of computers and laptops. This is evidenced by the results of research conducted by F-Secure, which was conducted in 15 countries, including Germany, Italy, France, Great Britain, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Poland, the USA, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Australia and Malaysia. In a survey of F-Secure 6000 people took part in age from 20 to 60 years.

The study indicated that the financial costs of online fraud suffered 12% of Europeans and 17% of people in other continents. The largest number of victims lived in the UK, USA and Malaysia.

Nowadays, more people are concerned about online safety when using computers than when using mobile devices and tablets. 69% of users around the world are wondering about their safety when they make purchases, read, send e-mail or play games online through their computers. 54% are concerned when using mobile devices, and only 43% with tablets.

New Android-malware Perkele intercepts messages

Discovered a new virus program that intercepts incoming sms-messages with the use of mobile devices running Android. Independent expert on computer security Brian Krebs found on one of the online forums offering for sale a program that forwards incoming sms text organizers virus attack, "merging" confidential user information - for example, the data for online banking.

Part of banking institutions in many countries, a two-level authentication - the client to confirm the payment, not only need to enter the password, but also a special sms-code.

Virus Perkele (program name translates as the Finnish obscene expletive) works in conjunction with other malware that installs a virus and replaces the instructions on the Web page of the payment - as a result the user is asked to install on the phone, "a special program to secure Android», under the guise of which the hidden Perkele.

For Android is written 79% of mobile malicious programs

Finnish antivirus vendor F-Secure published a report according to which in 2012 open source operating system Android has shown rapid growth not only in popularity, but by the number of produced malware.

In 2012, Android has become a target for 79% of produced malicious software. A year earlier the rate was 65%.

Only in the fourth quarter, the share of Android had 96 brand new viral families, and with the variants of malicious codes, the number of new threats in the hundreds. F-Secure notes that in the last quarter of 2012, the most popular Android-malware are various codes that perform certain operations with SMS-messaging and premium SMS-numbers. Of the 96 new families of 21 was focused on the secret SMS messages sent to short numbers.

F-Secure Client Security 10

F-Secure Client Security 10 - updated antivirus from Finland

Company F-Secure, which specializes in fighting viruses, released a new version of its product F-Secure Client Security 10 for safety of individual jobs in the workplace. This antivirus is designed to help organizations to protect their systems against threats from cyber space. An important innovation of the package F-Secure Client Security 10 is to use the latest version of a corporate mechanism to detect and eliminate viruses DeepGuard 4.

Another important difference between the new version of F-Secure Client Security 10 - Full support for Windows 8, so that the companies that are planning to transfer to a new client platform from Microsoft, will be able to use the solution F-Secure, without fear of compatibility issues.

Centralized management also did not go unnoticed Finnish developers. Client Security package instance 10 can be fully controlled from a single console, which is implemented in the new version of the module F-Secure Policy Manager.

F-Secure Internet Security 2013 - the new protection of home PC

The Company F-Secure has released a new version of its flagship product, F-Secure Internet Security 2013

This application is focused on the consumer market, provides reliable protection of user systems and personal data while working in a global network.

 F-Secure Internet Security - a software package for comprehensive protection of your computer from viruses and hackers. Includes antivirus and firewall, and a module to block access to undesirable sites. F-Secure Internet Security lets you manage all transfers between the computer and the Internet and stop all suspicious packages and do not trust any application that attempts to connect to the Internet. In F-Secure Internet Security technology is used F-Secure DeepGuard to detect newly emerging and previously unknown threats. DeepGuard it manages the entire software in real-time!