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.
Russian cyberspies Gamaredon has been discovered using two Android spyware families named 'BoneSpy' and 'PlainGnome' to spy on and steal data from mobile devices. [...]
Russian cyberspies Gamaredon has been discovered using two Android spyware families named 'BoneSpy' and 'PlainGnome' to spy on and steal data from mobile devices. [...]
A sophisticated social engineering cybercrime campaign bent on financial gain was observed being run from Tencent servers in Singapore.
Law enforcement across mainland China have been using EagleMsgSpy surveillance tool to collect mobile device data since at least 2017, new research shows.
The Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor tracked as Gamaredon has been attributed to two new Android spyware tools called BoneSpy and PlainGnome, marking the first time the adversary has been discovered using mobile-only malware families in its attack campaigns
A previously undocumented Android spyware called 'EagleMsgSpy' has been discovered and is believed to be used by law enforcement agencies in China to monitor mobile devices. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a novel surveillance program that's suspected to be used by Chinese police departments as a lawful intercept tool to gather a wide range of information from mobile devices
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a sophisticated mobile phishing (aka mishing) campaign that's designed to distribute an updated version of the Antidot banking trojan