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A Comprehensive Guide to Mobile Anti-Malware Solutions

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A Comprehensive Guide to Mobile Anti-Malware Solutions: Protecting Your Device from Cyber Threats

In the digital age, the importance of mobile anti-malware solutions cannot be overstated. As we increasingly rely on our smartphones and tablets for everything from banking to shopping to social networking, these devices have become prime targets for cybercriminals. This article provides a comprehensive guide to mobile anti-malware solutions, offering insights on how to protect your device from cyber threats.

Mobile malware is a type of malicious software designed to target mobile devices. It can take many forms, including viruses, worms, Trojans, ransomware, and spyware. These threats can compromise your personal information, drain your battery, consume your data, and even render your device unusable. Therefore, it’s crucial to understand the various types of mobile malware and how they operate.

The first step in protecting your device is to install a reliable mobile anti-malware solution. These applications work by scanning your device for known threats and removing them. They also provide real-time protection, blocking malicious apps and websites before they can infect your device. Some of the most popular mobile anti-malware solutions include Avast, McAfee, Norton, and Bitdefender. These solutions offer robust protection against a wide range of threats, and they’re easy to install and use.

However, it’s important to note that no anti-malware solution is 100% effective. New threats are constantly emerging, and cybercriminals are always finding new ways to bypass security measures. Therefore, it’s essential to keep your anti-malware software up to date. Most solutions offer automatic updates, ensuring that you’re always protected against the latest threats.

In addition to using an anti-malware solution, there are several other steps you can take to protect your device. One of the most effective is to only download apps from trusted sources. Many instances of mobile malware come from third-party app stores or malicious websites. By sticking to official app stores, you can significantly reduce your risk.

It’s also important to be wary of phishing attempts. Phishing is a…

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Cyber Attacks Against Mobile Devices Growing Fast

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by D. Howard Kass • Jul 3, 2023

A rise in mobile-powered businesses is creating vulnerability gaps that are being exploited by cyber criminals and nation-states, according to a new report by Zimperium, a mobile first security platform provider.

Indeed, some 43% of all compromised devices were fully exploited — not just jailbroken or rooted — an increase of 187% year-over-year, Zimperium found in its 2023 Global Mobile Threat Report.

Explosive Growth in Mobile Device Use Fuels Wider Attack Surface

Shridhar Mittal, Zimperium chief executive, said the “explosive growth” in mobile device and app use has created a wider attack surface:

“Mobile devices are integral to the way we work, communicate, navigate, bank and stay informed — creating new opportunities for malware. Last year’s Global Mobile Threat Report revealed that 60% of the endpoints accessing enterprise assets were mobile devices, and this does not seem to be slowing down. Mobile-powered businesses must increase mobile security measures to protect the personal data security of employees and the sensitive information belonging to the organization.”

Here are some of the key findings from the study:

  • 80% of phishing sites target mobile devices specifically or are designed to function both on desktop and mobile. Meanwhile, the average user is six to ten times more likely to fall for SMS phishing attacks than email-based attacks.
  • During 2022, Zimperium detected an average of four malicious/phishing links clicked for every device covered with its anti-phishing technology.
  • EMEA and North America have the highest percentage of devices being impacted by spyware, with EMEA at 35% and North America at 25%.
  • There was a 138% increase in critical Android vulnerabilities discovered in 2022, while Apple iOS accounted for 80% of the zero-day vulnerabilities actively being exploited in the wild.
  • Between 2021 and 2022, the total number of unique mobile malware samples rose 51%, with more than 920,000 samples detected, including Dirty RatMilad, MoneyMonger and Dark Herring.
  • In 2021, Zimperium detected malware on 1 out of 50 Android devices. It increased significantly in 2022 to 1 out of every 20 devices.
  • ±2% of all…

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Appdome powers up mobile app security with latest solution

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Appdome, the mobile app defense company, has announced the launch of its new MOBILEBot Defense solution. This solution offers mobile brands bot detection, comprehensive intelligence and rapid defense against malicious bots, credential stuffing and account takeovers (ATOs) in mobile app business lines.

As mobile applications become the dominant in the consumer landscape, mobile bots, malware bots and other automated programs pose a significant threat to business integrity, transaction integrity, security, user accounts and business reputation for mobile app owners, the company states.

Traditional anti-bot offerings are struggling to keep pace with the evolving diversity and sophistication of mobile applications, often trying to force-fit bot defense methods designed for web applications onto mobile frameworks.

This mismatch often requires mobile app developers to face implementation complexities, change the mobile application network stack, remove valuable TLS protections or limit bot defense to a single host.

The result, for an increasingly mobile economy, is that larger parts of the mobile infrastructure are left vulnerable to mobile bot attacks, fraud, ATOs, API abuse, credential stuffing and more.

Tom Tovar, Appdome co-creator and CEO, comments, “Mobile is a unique platform and different technical methods are needed inside Android and iOS apps to detect and stop bots.

“We built the first anti-bot solution tailor-made for the way mobile apps and mobile app attacks work, because that’s where businesses and consumers need it most.”

Appdome’s MOBILEBot Defense solution offers advantages for mobile brands looking to stop mobile bot attacks, fraud, ATOs, API abuse, credential stuffing and more including:

  • Higher performance mobile anti-bot defense to detect and stop mobile bots on any number of hosts, URLs and API endpoints without added cost.

  • Comprehensive mobile device and connection risk detection, providing greater granularity, insight and choice of over 100+ on-device threats like Android and iOS malware, hacking frameworks, instrumentation frameworks, jailbreak, root, Magisk, Zygisk, jailbreak bypass, Man in the Middle (MiTM) attacks and more.

  • Deeper mobile…

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