McAfee Labs collected 2.47 million new mobile malware samples in 2013, with 744,000 in the last quarter alone.
McAfee Labs collected 2.47 million new mobile malware samples in 2013, with 744,000 in the last quarter alone. The mobile malware “zoo” totaled 3.73 million samples at the end of the year.
According to McAfee Labs Threats Report, Fourth Quarter 2013, malware can arrive on a mobile device through just about every attack vector, such as downloaded apps, malicious website, spam, malicious SMS messages, and malware-bearing advertisements.