TechRepublic: Skyrocketing Android ransomware has quadrupled over past year, says new report

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A Kaspersky Lab reports Android ransomware is booming, quadrupling over the past year alone, shedding light on the growing problem of non-PC ransomware.

By Conner Forrest
June 30, 2016

It's been a tough week for Android security. First, one of the biggest mobile trojans ever was found to be running on 1.2 million Android devices, and now the number of Android ransomware cases are growing tremendously.

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