Security News > 2022 > March > 2021 mobile security: Android more vulnerabilities, iOS more zero-days
Mobile security company Zimperium has released its annual mobile threat report where security trends and discoveries in the year that passed lay the groundwork for predicting what's coming in 2022.
In 2021, actors focused more on remote workforce or on-premise mobile devices, leading to increased malicious network scans and man-in-the-middle attacks.
Concerning security in 2021, Android appears to be generally more vulnerable than iOS, but the latter tends to have more serious vulnerabilities.
This hypothesis is confirmed by the zero-day stats for 2021, with iOS vulnerabilities accounting for 64% of all 17 exploited zero-day attacks targeting mobile devices in 2021.
The conclusion is that apps are points of significant security liability for mobile devices.
Finally, keep your mobile OS up to date by applying the available security updates, and for Android, use an AV tool, activate Play Protect, and review app permissions regularly.
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