Be careful, Malware Targeting Cell Phone Number Increased By 800 Percent

The growing level of sales of mobile phones seems to have an impact that is proportional to the amount of malware in circulation today. A website is an online security services get safe online, suggests that the amount of malware targeting mobile phones as a target to increase to 800 percent within the last 4 months.

Based on the results of their research conducted in this week, nearly 17 percent of phone owners currently use the smartphone for purposes related to money. In addition there is the amount of 22 percent of smart phone users to download at least one new application per month.

Especially today many app stores are in it turned out to have applications or malicious software. In fact, malicious software is often pretend to look like a game application in fact rarely seen as a security application.


One-time malware is downloaded, the phone will be directly infected. After that, the malware will make calls, send SMS, SMS blocking, voicemail, and browsing the Internet to download certain content. This malware is also able to access personal data stored in the phone. So be careful for those of you who store important data on the phone.

For that, Get Safe Online to the owners of mobile phones, prompting cautious when downloading an application. Not to forget they are also reminded that prior to downloading, the phone owner to see reviews of the application. And lastly, always check the pulse on a regular basis, do not let your pulse suddenly depleted due to malware.

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