Alcatel-Lucent has published its quarterly report titled ?The Kindsight Security Labs Malware.?
In the report, Alcatel Lucent says that globally, about 10 per cent of home networks and over 0.5 per cent of mobile devices are infected with malware. About 6 per cent of home networks exhibt high-level security threats on account of viruses such as bots, rootkits and Trojan banking infecting computers and programme and applications running on computer.
The ZeroAccess botnet continues to be the most common malware threat, infecting 0.8 percent of broadband users. The findings in the report indicate that in mobile networks, the majority of infected devices are either Android based smartphones or Windows-based laptops which are tethered to a mobile phone or connected directly through a mobile USB stick or MIFI hub. Further, mobile malware continues to grow with a six-fold increase in the number of Android-based mobile phones affected by malware.
According to Alcatel Lucent, there has been a continuous increase in instances where malicious software or malware is being used by hackers to gain access to devices for corporate espionage, spying on individuals, theft of personal information, generating spam, denial of service attacks on business and governments and millions of Euros in fraudulent banking and advertising scams.
