The past and future of mobile malwares

Cyber criminals are interested in developing malicious software in order to infect personal computers and gain financial benefits from infected users. With the evolution of mobile technologies, sophisticated malwares with more advanced features have been developed. In this paper, we list and explain the mobile malwares which target different mobile platforms (i.e. Symbian, Blackberry, J2ME, Android, iOS) in the past. The functional behaviors and future aspects of the mobile malwares are discussed in the paper as well.