Mobile security covers threats to smartphones and tablets, including malicious apps, data theft, account compromise, and insecure wireless connections.
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Mobile security covers the protection of smartphones, tablets, and closely related handheld devices, including their operating systems, applications, wireless connections, and stored data. These devices combine personal and business information with cellular, Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, and location services, and often provide access to cloud and corporate systems.
Material risks include malicious or over-privileged applications, phishing and fraudulent authentication prompts, unpatched operating-system or baseband vulnerabilities, and exposure after a device is lost or stolen. Security teams typically reduce these risks through timely updates, approved application sources, encryption, strong screen locks and phishing-resistant authentication where supported, and mobile-device management that enforces policy and can remove access or wipe business data. Application permissions and device telemetry also require privacy controls, particularly when personal and corporate data share the same device. Mobile vulnerability disclosures and incidents may require checking device models, operating-system versions, applications, and management coverage rather than treating all mobile devices as equivalent.
The ten most prolific Android mobile banking trojans target 639 financial applications that collectively have over one billion downloads on the Google Play Store. [...]
A critical security flaw has been uncovered in UNISOC's smartphone chipset that could be potentially weaponized to disrupt a smartphone's radio communications through a malformed packet
Security researchers have described the malware as among the fastest-spreading mobile threats in recent years.
An international law enforcement operation involving 11 countries has culminated in the takedown of a notorious mobile malware threat called FluBot
An analysis of the mobile threat landscape in 2022 shows that Spain and Turkey are the most targeted countries for malware campaigns, even as a mix of new and existing banking trojans are increasingly targeting Android devices to conduct on-device fraud (ODF)
Vodafone is piloting a new advertising ID system called TrustPid, which will work as a persistent user tracker at the mobile Internet Service Provider (ISP) level. [...]
New EU regulations will help to drive increase
App stores a hotbed of malicious activity, Kaspersky warns
Kaspersky's quarterly report on mobile malware distribution records a downward trend that started at the end of 2020, detecting one-third of the malicious installations reported in Q1 2021, and about 85% of those counted in Q4 2021. [...]