Dark Reading: Hacking The Real Mobile Threats

Mobile malware remains a mess, but the actual threat depends on where you live and where you get your apps.

4/27/2015
By Kelly Jackson Higgins

INTEROP -- Las Vegas -- Verizon's new data breach report shows mobile is not a factor in cyberattacks thus far. And last week, a new study from Damballa looking at half of all US mobile traffic found users are 1.3 times more likely to get struck by lightning than to be infected with mobile malware.

Meanwhile, mobile malware families continue emerging -- 61 new ones for Android alone in the second half of 2014, according to F-Secure -- and popular smartphones are leaking private and possibly sensitive corporate data.

But the bad guys are more likely to target corporate users with good ol' desktop malware. So what gives?

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