Mobile Malware Rebounds and Keeps Growing, Report Says

After suffering a slight drop in the first three months of 2013, mobile malware has rebounded, with 18,000 new malware species detected, according to a new report (.PDF) by security firm McAfee.

This number, among others, indicates that cybercriminals keep focusing their efforts on infecting smartphones rather than computers, as people not only use their phones more frequently, but also because they are starting to use their cellphone for activities that traditionally were only done on a computer, like banking

"The fuzzy line between your computer and your cellphone is almost blasted away at this point in time," said Adam Wosotowsky a messaging data architect at McAfee. "There's really not that much of a difference between your cellphone and your computer anymore." Read more...