Informa (with McAfee) has released a report noting that 83 percent of mobile operators worldwide have had customers affected by mobile viruses, reports Reuters. This represents a five-fold increase in attacks on mobiles. Stilll, as the article notes, this is “thousands” of mobile phones worldwide, out of a base of a few billion…so it’s still a very minor problem.
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