Bad Apps Are Dangerous For Smart Phones And Tablets

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In the time we are living in, people can hardly imagine life without a mobile phone. Reports suggest that we all are spending more time with these small gadgets than television sets and PCs. Smart phones and tablets are available at the breakfast table, then they move with us to offices, colleges or schools, and stay beside the pillow or bad when we sleep. Nowadays, much of our time is spent with these little digital assistants. So, mobile devices are important to all of us, because apart from providing entertainment, they also allow us to accomplish lots of professional tasks.

But, have we ever imagined a day when our mobile phones may work for someone else behind our back? Yes, this may happen. Reports conducted for mobile security have revealed that, due to increasing popularity, incidents of hacking smartphone and tablet apps are occurring pretty commonly. Ordinary belief suggests that it is caused by those mobile apps which we download without a proper checkup for their credibility, but some preinstalled apps are also found with suspicious behavior.

China turns out to be the biggest victim of mobile attackers ...
... and hackers. More than a quarter of world’s total number of mobile phones has been found infected in China alone. A sum of 18.23 million smartphones has the apps purposely developed for hacking users’ personal data.

More than 10,000 bad apps were detected during the period of May and June. The biggest target of these malicious apps is mobile phones running on Android OS. With gradually increasing share of Android OS, risks have increased in manifold ways. According to reports, About 3 million Android-powered devices were attacked in June this year. The second biggest target is Symbian OS, but it is regularly falling out of favor.

Mobile developers of these malicious apps are smarter than we think. For example, they build such apps that automatically stop attacks if the SIM card belongs to an area with tight control over mobile phone crime. The most common way of attack is the deduction of telephone fee without the consent of the user. About one fourth apps have been built to transfer an amount to the accounts of hackers either by calling or texting on premium numbers. Malicious apps charge a nominal amount to go unnoticed for so long. But if the app is downloaded by hundreds of thousands of users, its developer is going to get a big money.

The best way to stay away from these attacks is that users stay away from free apps. Also they should buy Android mobile phones manufactured by well known companies, because some built-in apps have also been found involved in suspicious activities.

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