Malware can find its way onto your mobile device through mobile ads

Venkat Krishnapur, Vice-President of Engineering and MD, McAfee India

"Mobile malware authors are increasingly aiming for and generating revenues amounting to millions of dollars with their malicious campaigns. So, the pace at which malware has evolved on mobile devices is alarming. Findings from the ‘McAfee Mobile Threat Report’, state that today, there are more than 4,000 mobile threat families and variants in the McAfee sample database. These sheer numbers tell us how the threat landscape is ever evolving and that, our mobile phones are becoming one of the foremost targets for cybercrimes. 

Mobile malware authors are increasingly aiming for and generating revenues amounting to millions of dollars with their malicious campaigns. So, the pace at which malware has evolved on mobile devices is alarming."