37% of users are afraid to spend money transactions on mobile devices

More than a third of Russian Internet users are afraid to make electronic payments using a smartphone or tablet. It became clear from the study conducted by "Kaspersky Lab" in conjunction with research firm B2B International in the summer of 2013. Spending money in the online stores , as well as dispose of them freely systems online banking and other services related to finance, prevent users about the safety of such operations from mobile devices. Pay bills and services, to buy things to make remittances - Today All this can be done in just a few clicks. Widespread mobile devices - smartphones and tablets - makes all these tasks even easier and more convenient: thanks to them to carry out online transactions from any place where open access to the network. However, according to the survey, 37% of respondents in Russia would never use mobile devices to carry out online transactions , for example, to pay for goods in online stores . In addition, a quarter of Russians polled (25%) feared use smartphones and tablets to manage their finances in the systems of online banking . Only 9% of tablet owners and 14% of smartphone users are not afraid to enter any financial information via mobile devices. Such findings are not surprising if we take into account that in Russia 70% of respondents reporting that they have a smartphone (excluding owners of iPhone) and 78% of users who own a tablet (excluding owners iPad), use devices based on Android - the most popular and most frequently attacked mobile operating system. According to the "Kaspersky Lab", to date 99.9% of the existing samples of malware aimed at mobile devices, written under the system Android. And the number continues to rise: in 2012 the entire company experts have found 35,000 malware samples for Android, is only for the first six months of 2013 - more than 47 thousand. noteworthy that for some users more relevant for Android becomes cyberthreats the main reason is not something that does not use online banking , but do not buy and do not use such devices - 11% Russian study participants reported that they use Android for this reason. To protect against this threat experts "Kaspersky Lab" recommends using Kaspersky Internet Security for Android.