Android Malicious Code Chronicle

Overview

At present, Android has become the largest market share of mobile smart device platform, but also become a mobile malicious application of the largest breeding ground, the security of mobile Internet is undoubtedly one of the mainstream security threats today. The development of mobile malicious code is more explosive than traditional PC malicious code, and various development techniques, attack techniques and defensive methods are evolving and developing rapidly.

Counting the 2011-to-date mobile malicious code virus database, you can see that the number of malware in the Android platform is growing very quickly, and the number gap between years is near. From the entire mobile malicious code virus database, you can find a lot of typical malicious behavior of mobile phone applications, from which they can observe the evolution of the development of malware, so as to speculate on the future trend of development.

Table 1 Growth of Android malicious code

Android Malicious Code Chronicle

The following summarizes recent mobile security events and typical mobile malicious code in chronological order.

From the above typical Android malicious code can be seen, mobile malicious code development has a strong explosion. From the timeline, 2010-2011 is the beginning of its development, the number of malicious code is relatively small, technical means relatively green; 2012 is the transition period, malicious code began the confrontation and exploit, 2013 to the present in the rapid development of the outbreak, whether in the number of malicious code or technical means , no one is refreshed with the history record.

Summing up the history, we can observe some laws of the development of mobile malicious code, and hope to make some basic judgments in terms of technology, business trends and so on, in order to help security vendors to build a more powerful system of malicious code confrontation.

Android Malicious Code Chronicle