2011 Accountability Adware Social Engineering 
SecureList
MARCH 1, 2021
In their campaigns to infect mobile devices, cybercriminals always resort to social engineering tools, the most common of these passing a malicious application off as another, popular and desirable one. Last year was notable for both malware and adware, the two very close in terms of capabilities. Trends of the year.
Malwarebytes
APRIL 11, 2023
The term was first used by Brian Krebs in 2011 after a proof of concept was conducted at DEF CON by Wall of Sheep. There are crawlers that can search your phone for personally identifiable information (PII), account credentials, banking-related or credit card data in seconds. However, the chances of that happening are rather slim.
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