Security News > 2021 > March > Mobile Adware Booms, Online Banks Become Prime Target for Attacks
In its' Mobile Malware Evolution 2020, Kaspersky documents the current mobile threat landscape and identifies 2021 mobile security trends.
"We saw a decrease in the number of attacks in the first half of the year, which can be attributed to the confusion of the first months of the pandemic," wrote Victor Chebyshev, a mobile security researcher at Kaspersky and author of the report.
Leading mobile threat types in 2020 is adware, accounting for 57 percent of attacks.
Trojan droppers and mobile trojans each represented 4.5 percent of attacks and SMS-based trojans represented 4 percent of actual mobile criminal activity.
Adware attacks against mobile users grew from representing 22 percent of attacks to 57 percent of all types of mobile threats.
"The inability to visit a bank branch forced customers to switch to mobile and online banking, and banks, to consider stepping up the development of those services," they wrote.