A recent spear-phishing attack involving a Trojan designed to target Android devices offers an important reminder of the emerging threat of mobile malware. The Trojan, discovered by Kaspersky Lab, had the ability to report back information about the user. Social media and other online services provide attackers a goldmine that will help them craft e-mails or craft the attachments. Mobile device users can begin to protect themselves by adding additional security packages to their devices to protect from malicious downloads. Mobile malware trends for 2013 and 2014; why personally identifiable information is becoming easier for fraudsters to compromise.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/defending-against-mobile-malware-a-5735