Senior Vice President of Apple, Phil Schiller, is known taking a jab at rivals and the prominent figure is often found using social media outlets like Twitter and email to voice his views. Now according to the latest update the executive has once again used his Twitter account to poke fun at the Android OS, as Schiller tweeted a link of a recent study that shows a comparison of different mobile platforms including iOS. The comparison is basically shows security threats percentage on various mobile platforms. It revealed that there are more security threats and malware on Android OS as compared to any other mobile platform. Security threats and malware have increased for Android during and Schiller also posted a tweet with the link, which reads, “be safe out there.” The security threat comparison was carried out F-Secure a security firm.
“Android malware has been strengthening its position in the mobile threat scene. Every quarter, malware authors bring forth new threat families and variants to lure more victims and to update on the existing ones. In the fourth quarter alone, 96 new families and variants of Android threats were discovered, which almost doubles the number recorded in the previous quarter. A large portion of this number was contributed by PremiumSMS—a family of malware that generates profit through shady SMS-sending practices—which unleashed 21 new variants.”
Apart from this the F-Secure study also stated that Apple’s iOS operating system has remained one of the most secure mobile platform in the past few months. Given that iOS has a very low percentage of security threats. The majority of the attacks on the iOS “intended for multiple platforms similar to the case of FinSpy4.”
According to the study, “the rise of Android malware can be largely attributed to the operating system’s increasing foothold in the mobile market. Android’s market share has risen to 68.8% in 2012, compared to 49.2% in 20112. On the threat side, its share rose to 79% in 2012 from 66.7% in 2011. Symbian on the other hand, is suffering from the opposite fate. In 2012, it only held 3.3% market share which is a huge drop from 16.5% in the year before.
Its share in the threat scene also reflected this drop, going from 29.7% in 2011 to 19% in 2012. Nokia’s decision to halt all Symbian development in February 2012 may have contributed to the huge drop in numbers. As its market share declines, so does malware authors’ interest in the platform as evidenced by the statistics seen in Q4 where only four new families and variants of Symbian malware were recorded.”
Source: 9to5Mac
Photo: F-Secure
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