Mobile malware detections almost tripled in 2016 and advertising Trojans exploiting super-user rights became the top threat. These are among the findings of Kaspersky Lab's 2016 Mobile Threat report released today, which looks at reports generated by the company's mobile products. The company recorded nearly 40 million attack attempts by mobile malware last year, with over four million users of Android-based devices protected (compared to 2.6 million in 2015). There were over 260,000 detections of installation packages for mobile ransomware Trojans (an increase of almost 8.5 times, year-on-year) More than 153,000 unique users were targeted by mobile ransomware (an increase… [Continue Reading]
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