Malware

Despite alarming new numbers about the growth of mobile applications that are created to be malicious, researchers maintain legitimate apps that gain access to too much information are the real concern at the moment.

The intruders used the certificate to sign malware that appeared to be a legitimate update for Opera. A few thousand people may have been infected.

The tech giant is now making publicly available data on how many "Safe Browser" warnings it delivers, among other stats.

Security firm Seculert has published details on "PinkStats," a trojan downloader that is believed to have been distributed by Chinese hackers.

The Moscow-headquartered security firm Kaspersky Lab found that 37.3 million people faced the prospect of being phished in 2012 to present day, an 87 percent increase over the same period between 2011 and 2012.

The app acts the same way that rogue anti-virus, or ransomware, installed on desktops and laptops would. Users are made to believe their device is infected with viruses, and if they want it cleaned, they must pay up.

Now that the cat is out of the bag, members of the Carberp gang may be looking to move on to a new business, researchers say.