Microsoft strategy to offers free Windows Phone handsets to the users affected Android malware attacks has been found on Twitter some time ago. This Microsoft promo was stated by Ben Rudolph through Twitter with the DroidRage. He write a request for Android users malware affected to tell the story of their malware, and they could have won the phone for replacement windows.
We can tell that Microsoft marketing strategy seems like what Samsung did to iPhone when first generation of iPhone 4 got antenna gate, Samsung via Twitter also offered the same thing to iPhone 4 user . We think this have something to do with malware on Android application called RuFraud.
This malware will send a short message service to a premium number so it charges so high. This RuFraud malware targeting Android users in Europe, Asia and other markets outside North America. This malware offering wallpapers art from famous movies, horoscope reading and popular games for android user. The good news is that recently Google has remove RuFraud malware from Android market to anticipate the spread to another countries.
This situation can only get worse with a report from Juniper Global Threat Center, which states that there is an increase of 472% of malware since last July. According to researchers, Google is not too tighten screening applications so that more potential malwares slip into to the Android Market. We can say that Android OS also has even defeat the Nokia Symbian OS mobile as the most targeted malware. So from now on malware hackers are pointing their target to Android OS.
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