F-Secure-s New Mobile Threat Report Details Abrupt Drop in Symbian Malware Threats From Previous Quarters; Android Malware Continues Upward Trend
SAN JOSE, CA — (Marketwire) — 03/07/13 — In what may be the only good news for Symbian, latest shows a drop in malware targeting the declining platform to just four percent of all mobile threats detected in Q4 2012, down from an average of 26 percent in the first three quarters. Malware targeting Symbian was down to 19 percent of all mobile malware for 2012, down from 29 percent in 2011.301 total new threat families and variants were detected in 2012. Android malware continued to gain in i