PARIS — As of the end of 2014, 16 million mobile devices worldwide have been infected by malicious software, estimated Alcatel-Lucent's security arm, Motive Security Labs, in its latest security report released Thursday (Feb. 12).
Such malware is used by "cybercriminals for corporate and personal espionage, information theft, denial of service attacks on business and governments and banking and advertising scams," the report warned.
Some of the key facts revealed in the report -- released two weeks in advance of the Mobile World Congress 2015 -- could dampen the mobile industry's renewed enthusiasm for mobile payment systems such as Google Wallet and Apple Pay. [...]
According to the report, in the mobile networks, "Android devices have now caught up to Windows laptops as the primary workhorse of cybercrime." The infection rates between Android and Windows devices now split 50/50 in 2014, said the report.
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