McAfee registered the biggest increase in malware in four years during the first quarter of this year. Fake antivirus programs declined in popularity, but software with faked security signatures rose. McAfee counted about 200,000 new examples of password-stealing Trojan horses. The report calls rootkits “one of the nastiest classifications of malware” The total number of identified threats to Android devices more than quadrupled in first quarter, reaching 8,000. Most mobile malware aimed at Android did not come from apps offered through Google Play app marketplace.”]
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