Tracking Android Malware with Lookout Mobile Threat Tracker

By Karla Robinson
January 25, 2012

In the past year, malware on Android phones spiked a number of times, raising security concerns.
Lookout, which creates software for mobile security, recently released an app to visually show threats occurring in “near real-time.”
“Lookout’s Mobile Threat Tracker shows the location of every malware incident tracked by its app on a 3D map of the world,” Mashable reports. “Besides just the impressive visual, the app also calls up the top three specific threats, providing a little extra information on what the evildoing software does. It’ll also give a percentage of spyware vs. malware.”
The app is limited to phones that use Lookout — fairly popular in the U.S. and Germany — so it doesn’t give the full picture, but “it’s still a sobering reminder that phones are rapidly becoming big business for malware creators,” suggests Mashable.
The post includes a video demo.

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