Apple SVP Phil Schiller Points to Cisco Report That Found 99% of Mobile Malware Targets Android

Apple SVP Phil Schiller points to a Cisco report that found 99% of all mobile malware in 2013 targeted Android devices.

Schiller tweeted a link to the report earlier today.

According to Cisco TRAC/SIO researchers, when mobile malware is intended to compromise a device, 99 percent of all encounters target Android devices. Trojans targeting Java Micro Edition (J2ME)-capable devices held the second spot in 2013, with 0.84 percent of all mobile malware encounters. Mobile malware that targets specific devices made up just 1.2 percent of all web malware encounters
in 2013.

Not all mobile malware is designed to target specific devices, however. Many encounters involve phishing, likejacking, or other social engineering ruses, or forcible redirects to websites other than expected. An analysis of user agents by Cisco TRAC/SIO reveals that Android users, at 71 percent, have the highest encounter rates with all forms of web-delivered malware, followed by Apple iPhone users with 14 percent of all web malware encounters.

Check out the charts below for more details...

[Cisco 2014 Annual
Security Report]