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Mobile malware is on the rise: Know how to protect yourself from a virus or stolen data.
Loïc Guézo, senior director, Cybersecurity Strategy at Proofpoint, said, "Scams, smishing and mobile malware have been increasing exponentially for the past few years. This is a trend that began pre-pandemic and continues. Trust in mobile messaging communications makes it a very attractive platform for commercial and marketing activity; it also makes the mobile channel ripe for fraud and identity theft for cybercriminals."
Some mobile malware types are able to record telephone and non-telephone conversations, record audio and video directly from the device or even destroy or wipe the phone's data.
Mobile malware can intercept any interesting information on the phone: credentials for applications, credit card numbers, SMS, and can be even be used for proxying other attacks, which is particularly bad because the phone might be used to target someone else and a legal investigation would probably lead to it, rendering the phone's user suspect in different cases.
In addition to mobile malware, smishing attacks is another important threat targeting mobile phone users.
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