Security News > 2020 > June > Enterprise Mobile Phishing Attacks Skyrocket Amidst Pandemic

Encounter rates for enterprise mobile phishing increased 37 percent between the last quarter of 2019 and the first quarter of 2020, from around 16 percent to 22 percent.

The Mobile Phishing Spotlight Report from Lookout highlights how threat actors have shifted their tactics to take advantage of the evolving move from the physical to mobile or home office in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced many companies to order their employees to work from home and use mobile devices as part of their every-day productivity.

Mobile phishing attacks are different from typical phishing campaigns that target workstations and laptops in several ways.

The mobile platform gives attackers a wider playing field with which to work and deliver malicious links for installing malware: They can use SMS, social media, messaging platforms and even dating apps to deliver malicious payloads via phishing attacks on mobile devices, he said.

Bolstering cloud-based security measures to protect a dispersed workforce as completely as an on-premise enterprise security solution would is an important aspect of combatting new mobile phishing threats, he said.

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