SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In 2020, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 5,683,694 malicious installation packages, 156,710 new mobile banking Trojans, 20,708 new mobile ransomware Trojans. The word “covid” in various combinations was typically used in the names of packages hiding spyware and banking Trojans, adware or Trojan droppers.

Mobile 131

Mobile Malware Adware Banking 131

SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

Ransomware attacks were defeated on the computers of 91,841 unique users. Ransomware programs. New additions to the ransomware arsenal. Last year, the SunCrypt and RagnarLocker ransomware groups adopted new scare tactics. 613,968,631 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by Web Anti-Virus components.

Mobile 87

Mobile Adware Ransomware Malware 87

Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

There was KeRanger ransomware in 2016. Several effective Mac-facing miners joined the crypto-rush in 2018. ThiefQuest , a Mac malware masquerading as ransomware, was discovered in mid-2020. Adware, for example, can host malicious advertising (malvertising), which can push exploits or redirects to malicious websites.

Malware 95

Malware Adware Software Passwords 95

SecureList

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

17,372 new mobile ransomware Trojans. Number of detected malicious installation packages, 2018–2021 ( download ). As in the previous year, this was largely due to the active distribution of adware from the AdWare.AndroidOS.Notifyer family. Mobile adware. Top 10 adware families detected in 2021. Figures of the year.

Mobile 118

Mobile Malware Adware Banking 118

SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

Web antivirus recognized 675,832,360 unique URLs as malicious. Ransomware attacks were defeated on the computers of 97,451 unique users. Our file antivirus detected 68,294,298 unique malicious and potentially unwanted objects. Ransomware programs. Ransomware attacks on large organizations continued in Q2.

Adware 90

Adware Malware Ransomware IoT 90

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Yet in a recent report by Nationwide , only 13% of small business owners said they’d been targeted by a cyberattack, but when they saw specific examples of cybercrime — from phishing to ransomware — that number shot up to 58%. In 2018 alone, we saw thousands of data breaches expose more than 446 million records.

Malware 98

Malware Small Business Computers and Electronics Adware 98

SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

25,314 packages were related to mobile banking Trojans, 3,596 packages were mobile ransomware Trojans. The majority (61.43%) of the discovered threats belonged to the adware category. Adware accounted for the overwhelming majority (61.43%) of all threats discovered in Q1 2021, a decrease of 12 percentage points from Q4 2020.

Mobile 68

Mobile Adware Banking Malware 68