NEW DELHI: India is the second-most cyber attacks on mobile devices prone country with a major chunk of these intrusions designed for phishing and stealing banking details, a report by security software maker Kaspersky said.

Russian cyber security solutions firm Kaspersky Lab said Russia topped the list of attacks on mobile phones, accounting for 40.34 percent of all attacked unique users.

India, with 7.9 percent of attacks, stood at the second spot, followed by Vietnam (3.96 percent), Ukraine (3.84 per cent) and the UK (3.42 percent).

Other countries in the top 10 included Germany (3.2 percent), Kazakhstan (2.88 per cent), the US (2.13 percent), Malaysia (2.12 percent) and Iran (2.01 percent).

During 2013, nearly 100,000 new malicious programs for mobile devices were detected, more than double the previous year’s figure of 40,059 samples, Kaspersky said.

“About 98.1 percent of all mobile malware detected in 2013 targeted Android devices,” it added.

The report also found that about four million malicious applications were used by cybercriminals to distribute mobile malware for Android-based devices.

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