Potentially Unwanted Applications

In its annual SMB threat report, Kaspersky shares insights into trends and statistics on malware, phishing, scams, and other threats to small and medium-sized businesses, as well as security tips.

Key statistics for 2023: ransomware, trojan bankers, miners and other financial malware, zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits, web attacks, threats for macOS and IoT.

In 2022, Kaspersky data shows that 29,312 unique individuals around the world were affected by stalkerware. We detected 182 different stalkerware apps, the most popular one was Reptilicus.

Android threat report by Kaspersky for 2022: malware on Google Play and inside the Vidmate in-app store, mobile malware statistics.

Key statistics for 2022: ransomware, trojan bankers, miners and other financial malware, zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits, web attacks, threats for macOS and IoT.

In Q3 2022, a total of 5,623,670 mobile malware, adware, and riskware attacks were blocked, and 438,035 malicious installation packages were detected.

In this report, we analyze malware, potentially unwanted applications and phishing cases related to most popular video games and cheats for these games.

In this research, we observed various types of threats that mimic useful web browser extensions, and the number of users attacked by them.

In Q2 2022, we detected 405,684 mobile malware installation packages, of which 55,614 packages were related to mobile banking trojans, and 3,821 packages were mobile ransomware trojans.

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.

Every year Kaspersky analyzes the use of stalkerware around the world to better understand the threat it poses. We partner with stakeholders across public and private sectors to raise awareness and find solutions to best tackle this important issue.

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.

Key statistics for 2021: miners, ransomware, trojan bankers and other financial malware, zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits, web attacks, threats for macOS and IoT.

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

FinSpy, also known as FinFisher or Wingbird, is an infamous surveillance toolset, we has been tracking deployments of this spyware since 2011. In the report we decided to share some of our unseen findings about the actual state of FinSpy implants.