As most of us shift our dependency from PC to mobile, so has the focus of hackers, mobile ready malware are on the rise and predominantly infiltrate devices even without the owner knowing. Prefered choice of OS under threat at the moment is Android.

The latest ranking on malware threats on mobile devices complied by security service company Kaspersky, shows China topping the list with most users attacked, more than 36% of users encountered mobile threat at least once during the quarter. China also came first in this ranking in Q1 2016.

In all the countries of this ranking, except China, the most popular mobile malware was the same – advertising Trojans that appeared in the TOP 20 mobile malware, and AdWare. The most popular malicious program was Trojan.AndroidOS.Iop.c. In China, a significant proportion of attacks also involved advertising Trojans, but the majority of users there encountered the Backdoor.AndroidOS.GinMaster and Backdoor.AndroidOS.Fakengry families, while Trojan.AndroidOS.Iop.c only occupied sixteenth place.

Russia (10.4%) was 26th in this ranking, Germany (8.5%) 38th, Italy (6.2%) 49th, and France (5.9%) 52th. The US (5.0%) came 59th and the UK (4.6%) 64th.

The safest countries were Austria (3.6%), Sweden (2.9%) and Japan (1.7%).

Notice: The rankings did not include countries where number of Kaspersky Labs mobile security product is lower than 10,000.