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Nov. 27, 2013 - 9:39 - Trend Micro’s Global VP of Threat Research, Rik Ferguson, discusses the cyber threat to people shopping online this holiday season

The Xbox One video game console launches in only a few hours, but beware: Online scammers are already targeting people looking for a new system this holiday season.

It's enough to make a company lose its app-etite. From January to July of this year, 718,000 malicious and high-risk apps were distributed on the Android mobile platform alone, according to JD Sherry, vice president of technology and solutions at computing security firm Trend Micro in Irving, Texas. That's more than double the number of Android-based malware apps discovered in all of 2012.

Consumers are excited about the next generation of gaming consoles, but scammers are even more excited. Sony's PlayStation 4 launched last week, Microsoft's Xbox One will launch this week — and a deluge of scams taking advantage of the new consoles have launched as well.