OREANDA-NEWS. May 13, 2015. Some of the most noteworthy findings in the Kaspersky Lab “IT Threat Evolution Report for Q1 of 2015” involve mobile devices, Patrick Nielsen, senior security researcher at Kaspersky Lab, told SCMagazine.com in a Wednesday email correspondence.

In the first quarter of this year, Kaspersky Lab mobile security products detected 147,835 installation packages, 103,072 new malicious mobile programs, and 1,527 mobile banking trojans, according to statistics in the report.

Kaspersky Lab saw 3.3 times as many new malicious mobile programs in Q1 2015 than it did in the final quarter of last year, Nielsen said. He added that mobile ransomware saw a 65 percent increase in samples, and that mobile browsers accounted for 64 percent of mobile exploits. Read more.