In the first half of 2014, the infection rate for mobile devices grew by 17%, which is almost as much as the increase for the entire year 2013, when 20% was recorded.
According to a study from Kindsight Security Labs of Alcatel-Lucent, with data pulled from their sensors, 60% of the infected devices run Android operating system, and less than 1% rely on iOS, Blackberry, Symbian and Windows.
Based on telemetric information, the researchers estimate that about 15 million devices are currently …