Banking applications on Android phones are most vulnerable to cyber crime, the chief executive and co-founder of Russian anti-virus software maker Kaspersky Lab said on Monday.<\/p>\n
Eugene Kaspersky said 99 percent of mobile attacks are towards Android-based phones, since Apple has strict controls and does not allow third-party applications.<\/p>\n
The most disturbing trend in cyber attacks was a growing shift to mobile devices from computers and a major cyber attack using mobile phones was bound to happen since cellular users are not properly protected, he told Reuters.<\/p>\n
“I expect something really bad to happen to change people’s minds and awareness,” he said, noting that it took the Chernobyl virus in 1998 for people to properly protect their computers.<\/p>\n
“Cyber crime is moving to mobile but people are not aware. It’s still not as big as computer crime but it’s growing fast. The trend is a very dangerous situation,” he said at a cyber-tech conference in Israel, where he wants to open a research and development lab.<\/p>\n
Kaspersky makes one of the top-selling anti-virus programs in the United States, where it has gained market share in recent years against products from Symantec Corp, Intel’s McAfee and Trend Micro.<\/p>\n
He said it was hard to determine where most cyber attacks are coming from geographically but cyber criminals typically speak Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian.<\/p>\n
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