Hackers Will Start Planting Keyloggers On Smartphones

According to police and security experts. Smartphones will soon be the criminal's den as it becomes number one target for cyber criminals within five years.

Reports from Sky News shows how hackers are developing viruses to by-pass phone's security, including the latest biometric security systems.  

The malware 'Trojan horse' gives cyber-criminals undetected access to your smartphone's internal systems, where they can see every key stroke entered by a user.

Roughly a quarter of the world's population own a smartphone and as a matter of fact there is a particular pathway in China tagged "for smartphone users only", the United Kingdom is top of the list with six out of 10 people owning a device.

A senior security engineer at the world leading cyber security company F5 Networks, Keiron Shepherd, has been monitoring and targeting mobile device hackers.

He said  "If you just consider the amount of smartphones and the number of people, it's a great surface area for attackers to go for.

Windows was the predominate system, it was the path of least resistance for the malware writers. Devices and operating systems which were considered not an issue to be worried about in the past have now become a target for the malware writers."