Facebook Called Biggest Threat For Mobile Malware
BitDefender considers social networks, including Facebook, to represent the biggest threat for malware on mobile devices.
Malware targeting Facebook seems to embrace all platforms equally, but social media may be the biggest threat for introducing these nefarious applications on mobile devices, based on an analysis by the security vendor BitDefender.
BitDefender analyzed traffic during a malware attack on Facebook and found that 24 percent of it came from mobile devices. The security vendor considers that percentage to mean that social networks could be the biggest threat for this platform, or at least that’s what the company’s Threat Intelligence Team Leader George Petre said in today’s pess release:
When data security researchers focus on finding malware specifically designed for mobile platforms, they lose sight of an important mobile platform threat source — the social network.
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