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‘Tis the season for protecting your devices with Webroot antivirus

Webroot

Whether you purchase a new device or receive one as a gift, now is the time to consider the importance of protecting it with an antivirus program. What is antivirus? Antivirus programs accomplish this by conducting behavior-based detection, scans, virus quarantine and removal. Do I really need antivirus? In a word, yes.

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Mobile malware evolution 2020

SecureList

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. It just so happened that the year 2020 gave hackers a large number of powerful news topics, with the COVID-19 pandemic as the biggest of these.

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Mobile malware evolution 2021

SecureList

After 2020, which was full of newsbreaks and opportunities for masking malware, for example, as Covid19 trackers or video conferencing apps, the pandemic topic gradually faded in the reporting year. As in the previous year, this was largely due to the active distribution of adware from the AdWare.AndroidOS.Notifyer family.

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The mobile malware threat landscape in 2022

SecureList

Kaspersky mobile cyberthreat detection dynamics in 2020–2022 ( download ) Cybercriminals continued to use legitimate channels to spread malware. In addition to the previously known Jocker and MobOk families, we discovered a new family, named Harly and active since 2020. The number had been declining gradually since a 2020 increase.

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IT threat evolution in Q2 2021. Mobile statistics

SecureList

In Q2 2021, according to data from Kaspersky Security Network: 14,465,672 malware, adware and riskware attacks were prevented. Number of attacks targeting users of Kaspersky mobile solutions, Q2 2020 — Q2 2021 ( download ). The number of malware, adware and riskware attacks exceeded the 14.4 Quarterly figures. Verdict. %*.

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IT threat evolution in Q3 2021. Mobile statistics

SecureList

According to Kaspersky Security Network, in Q3 2021: 9,599,519 malware, adware and riskware attacks on mobile devices were prevented. Number of attacks targeting users of Kaspersky mobile solutions, Q3 2020 — Q3 2021 ( download ). Number of detected malicious installation packages, Q3 2020 — Q3 2021 ( download ). Verdict. %*.

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Experts spotted the first malware tailored for Apple M1 Chip, it is just the beginning

Security Affairs

Wardle discovered a Safari adware extension, tracked as GoSearch22, that was initially developed to run on Intel x86 chips, and now it was adapted to run on M1 chips. The malware is a variant of the Pirrit adware that was first spotted at the end of 2020. ” reads the analysis published by Wardle.

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