Malware attacks on mobile devices in India jumped in October 2020-March 2021 period: Report – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Malware attacks on mobile devices in India elevated by greater than 9-fold between October 2020 and March 2021 interval, cyber safety agency Check Point Technologies stated on Wednesday.
According to its 2021 mobile safety report, 97 per cent of organisations in 2020 confronted mobile threats that used a number of assault vectors and 46 per cent of organisations globally had a minimum of one worker obtain a malicious mobile utility.
“There has been a staggering 845 per cent increase in Mobile attacks since October 2020 in India. The total number of mobile attacks in India in Oct 2020 was 1,345.
“The complete quantity of mobile attacks in India in March 2021 was 12,719,” the report said.
As per the report, almost every organisation experienced at least one mobile malware attack in 2020 and 93 per cent of these attacks originated in a device network, wherein attempts were made to trick users into installing a malicious payload via infected websites or web links, or to steal users’ credentials.
“Cyber criminals are persevering with to evolve and adapt their strategies to use our rising reliance on mobiles. Enterprises have to undertake mobile safety options which seamlessly defend devices from right now’s superior cyber threats, and customers ought to be cautious to make use of solely apps from official app shops to minimise their threat,” Neatsun Ziv, VP Threat Prevention at Check Point Software, stated.
In 2020, Check Point discovered a 15 per cent enhance in banking Trojan exercise, the place customers’ mobile banking credentials are in danger of being stolen.
Check Point’s Achilles analysis confirmed that a minimum of 40 per cent of the world’s mobile devices are inherently susceptible to cyberattacks resulting from flaws in their chipsets, and wish pressing patching.