Seventy percent of all known mobile malware variants found in 2013: Kaspersky

"Over 100,000 new individual malware routines for mobile devices were detected in 2013 by the cloud-based Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) alone, according to recently released statistics from the security vendor that highlight the magnitude of the current online threat and its future potential growth. 

An annual analysis of KSN's activities found that the network intercepted 5.19 billion cyber-attacks on computers and mobile devices during 2013, with 1.7 billion attacks launched from online resources around the world – 45 percent of which came from the United States and Russia." Continue Reading