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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."

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.

The mobile data protection market is evaluated at $1.949 billion for the year 2019 and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 32.53% to reach a market size of $13.999 billion by the year 2026, according to ResearchAndMarkets. Mobile data protection is a technique that manages data encryption on a workstation's primary storage system in various data storage platforms, such as solid-state disks, portable media, and hard drives, and is used in conjunction with smartphones and workstations.

The New York State Office of the Attorney General warned victims of the August 2021 T-Mobile data breach that they faced identity theft risks after some of the stolen information ended up for sale on the dark web. The alert comes after individuals impacted in the incident were notified by identity theft protection services that their info was found online, demonstrating that affected consumers are now at heightened risk for identity theft.

McAfee unveiled two survey reports which reveal the level of disconnect that exists between generations over how safe mobile devices are and how vulnerable consumers are to threats on those devices. "The common thread linking these two research offerings are that consumers value protection of their data, privacy, and identity. As our use of mobile devices rapidly increases, we must remember that a mobile device is a connected device, just like a computer."

In this interview with Help Net Security, Rowland Corr, Director of National Security Intelligence at AdaptiveMobile Security, explains how mobile networks can be leveraged as part of a cyber warfare strategy, why is this a growing national concern, and how to implement defences against such sophisticated attacks. Where nations face the threat of overt military attack, mobile telecom networks can potentially be used by an attacker to further amplify advantage in offensive military operations as a force multiplier by enhancing real-time targeting capabilities.

They fed 4,680 days of app usage data into statistical models. Each of these days was paired with one of the 780 users, such that the models learnt people's daily app use patterns.

The overall number of attacks on mobile users is down, but they're getting slicker, both in terms of malware functionality and vectors, researchers say. The company's mobile products and technologies detected 97,661 new mobile banking trojans, along with 3,464,756 malicious installation packages and 17,372 new mobile ransomware trojans.

2021 mobile malware evolution: Fewer attacks, escalating dangers. To get a picture of its status, Kaspersky just released a new report about the mobile malware threat evolution.

Setting out how the combination of military and mobile telecom-enabled targeting capabilities can create a battlefield advantage; the paper illustrates the consistency of such a model with the concept of hybrid warfare. Since detecting this threat actor, periodic reconnaissance activities were observed in at least 7 target mobile networks around the world and given the wide geographic distribution of these targeted mobile operators, it is probable that the threat actor is active on a global scale.