TechHive: Android becomes Windows' equal as a target for hackers

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Android becomes Windows' equal as a target for hackers Aug 17th 2013, 19:55, by , CSO The capabilities of malware targeting the market-leading Android platform are mimicking those of Trojans that have wrung profits from Windows PC users for years, a new study shows. With nearly an 80 percent market share, Android's mobile dominance parallels Windows in the PC world, making Google's operating system the "mobile world's equivalent," Kaspersky Lab said in its latest Threat Evolution report, released on Thursday. The difference between Windows and Android malware is that the latter is evolving much quicker, as criminals borrow from what they learned in targeting PCs since the 1990s. "The evolution of Android malware has gone much more quickly than the evolution of Windows malware," Roel Schouwenberg, a senior researcher for Kaspersky Lab, told CSOonline. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Media files: android_malware_580-100043881-small.jpg

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