Security App For Android Smartphones
- Blocks potential hazards
- 1000 malicious apps on Android market already
- Company claims threats to grow to 120,000
Trend Micro’s Mobile App Reputation is said to be the first technology in the industry that can automatically identify, analyse and rate mobile applications for issues that could include malware, potential theft of private data and system resource abuse including battery, memory, and bandwidth.
Similar to Google Bouncer Service, which is focused on malware detection in Google’s Android Market, Trend Micro’s Mobile App Reputation analyses additional mobile app attributes and also works with third party Android app stores.
Additionally, Bouncer is analysing for malicious code within apps, whereas Trend Micro is analysing not only for malicious code but also privacy risks and system resource consumption.
According to Research2Guidance, there were more than 500,000 applications published on the Android Market in September 2011. Trend Micro threat research experts identified more than 1000 malicious Android apps in 2011 with that number claimed to be growing at a rate of 60 percent month over month. In 2012, the company’s threat researchers claim the number of malware on Android apps will grow to more than 120,000.
In addition, according to Google, the Android Market exceeded 10 billion app downloads with a growth rate of one billion app downloads per month as of December 2011. This is a growing marketplace both for legitimate app developers and cybercriminals
Initially scanning Android and Symbian applications, the technology will continue to add scanning of additional platforms over time.
Trend Micro’s core technology in this area can be broadly leveraged across the company’s set of enterprise and consumer products. By analysing the underlying code and the websites that the app connects to, and by dynamically analysing the app behavior, Trend Micro can correlate the information found with the vast amount of security information already at its disposal to identify and block potentially dangerous and resource-hogging mobile apps.
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