Mobile internet users are 1.3 times more likely to get struck by lightning than to be infected by mobile malware, found research by security firm
Damballa.
“News headlines indicate mobile malware is exploding, but the threat of infection by mobile malware is still very small,” Charles Lever, senior scientific researcher at Damballa told attendees of
RSA Conference 2015 in San Francisco.
He said that, while mobile malware is a real threat, the true extent of mobile infections is stillnot widely understood.
