This time last year, we said that 2018 would be the year of mobile malware.
Today at MWC, we’re calling 2019 the year of everywhere malware.
In their quest for profit, criminals are constantly forced to shift their tactics and adapt to a changing mobile market. Take crypto-mining, for example. A year ago this was a relatively hassle-free way of making money. But the bottom dropped out of the crypto-currency market over the course of 2018. Now it’s not as lucrative, so we witness more aggressive forms of ransomware that make payment more likely.
Our latest Mobile Threat Report has revealed a huge increase in backdoors, fake apps and banking Trojans. Hidden apps are being exploited as quickly as app stores can take them down and adversaries are adapting and developing new threats. The number of attacks on other connected things is growing too – your voice assistant might even be letting criminals into your home. And smartphones, of course, remain a prime target.
