Research Finds Mobile Malware Infections Overblown

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Research Finds Mobile Malware Infections Overblown

By CircleID Reporter
April 23, 2015, 3:13 pm PDT Views: 6,525 Add Comment

Advanced threat detection company, Damballa has released findings of a new research on Wednesday, detailing the overblown nature of the mobile malware problem. According to the company, the research, based on Big Data (50% of US mobile traffic), was used to determine actual malware infection rates—not just samples found, or vulnerabilities/theoretical attacks.

“This research shows that mobile malware in the Unites States is very much like Ebola—harmful, but greatly over exaggerated, and contained to a limited percentage of the population that are engaging in behavior that puts them at risk for infection,” says Charles Lever, senior scientific researcher at Damballa. “Ask yourself, ‘How many of you have been infected by mobile malware? How many of you know someone infected by mobile malware?’”

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