Mobile malware is cresting as it never has in the past, with new bugs being developed at breakneck speed. One of these, a new version of the Pincer trojan for Android that can intercept inbound text messages and forward them on, can compromise two-factor authentication protections.

Zeus and its ZBOT brethren are coming back down off banking-Trojan Olympus to take another whack at the financial services game. The info-stealing malware is reemerging with a vengeance, with increased activity and a few upgrades to the previous versions.

In the wake of Operation Hangover, a large cyber-espionage campaign run from India, security researchers have identified yet more strains of the culprit, the Kumar in the Mac (KitM) spyware for Mac OS X. And these don’t appear to have a political motivation.

The latest quarterly report from PandaLabs concludes on a surprisingly optimistic note given the continuous revelations of high profile hacks and the evolution of nation-state cyber warfare this year.

Researchers continue to find that the pace of mobile malware development is accelerating. A total of 22,750 new modifications of malicious programs targeting mobile devices were detected this past quarter by Kaspersky Lab, which is more than half of the total number of modifications detected in all of 2012. A full 99.9% of them target the Android platform.

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