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Sept. 1, 2016, 5:46 PM UTC

Smartphone Malware Infections on the Rise in 2016, Nokia Says

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By Daniel R. Stoller, Bloomberg BNA

Finland-based telecommunications company Nokia Oyj Inc. announced today that the number of all mobile devices, not just its own, infected with malware has nearly doubled in the first half of 2016 compared to the second half of 2015.

Mobile phone-based malware attacks hit an all-time high in April 2016 with 1.06 percent of mobile devices behind hit by an attack, Nokia said in their first half 2016 Threat Intelligence Report .

Although the attacks were seen across all mobile operations platforms, Alphabet Inc.'s Google’s operating system Android was targeted the most — 74 percent of the attacks tracked. Other major mobile operating systems—Apple Inc.'s ...

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