Mobile threats

ToddyCat APT and WinDealer man-on-the-side attack, Spring4Shell and other vulnerabilities, ransomware trends and our in-depth analysis of the TTPs of the eight most widespread ransomware families.

According to Kaspersky Security Network, in Q1 2022 516,617 mobile malware installation packages were detected, of which 53,947 packages were related to mobile banking trojans, and 1,942 packages were mobile ransomware trojans.

Kaspersky IT threat review in Q1 2022: activity of APTs such as MoonBounce, BlueNororff, Lazarus and Roaming Mantis, attacks against Ukraine, phishing kits, Okta hack and more.

Kaspersky analysis of mobile subscription Trojans Joker (Jocker), MobOk, Vesub and GriftHorse and their activity: technical description and statistics.

This report provides insight into 2021 financial threat trends and statistics, including data on banking malware for Windows and Android, banking, payment system and e-shop phishing, etc.

In 2021, cybercriminal activity gradually decreased, and attempts to exploit the pandemic topic became less common. However, mobile malware became more advanced, and attacks more complex.

We’ve observed some new activities by Roaming Mantis in 2021, and some changes in the Wroba malware that’s mainly used in this campaign. Furthermore, we discovered that France and Germany were added as primary targets of Roaming Mantis.

In Q3 2021, 9,599,519 malware, adware and riskware attacks on mobile devices were prevented.

We discovered that the Trojan Triada snook into one of modified versions of the WhatsApp messenger called FMWhatsapp 16.80.0 together with the advertising software development kit (SDK).

In this report, you will find statistics and other information about gaming-related malware, phishing schemes and other threats in 2020 and the first half of 2021.

Ferocious Kitten, TunnelSnake, PuzzleMaker and other threat actors, zero-day vulnerabilities, ransomware and banking Trojans – check out our review of Q2 2021.

In Q2 2021, we prevented 14,465,672 mobile malware, adware and riskware attacks; 886,105 malicious installation packages were detected, of which 24,604 packages were mobile banking Trojans and 3,623 packages were mobile ransomware Trojans.

The pandemic and the restrictions that came with it have led to an increase in the popularity of dating apps. But what about their security?

SolarWinds attacks, MS Exchange vulnerabilities, fake adblocker distributing miner, malware for Apple Silicon platform and other threats in Q1 2021.

In the first quarter of 2021 we detected 1.45M mobile installation packages, of which 25K packages were related to mobile banking Trojans and 3.6K packages were mobile ransomware Trojans.