Mobile ransomware is as powerful as the one seen on PCs
We're getting close to the end of the year, and annual reports are about to flood your news feeds. One of the first to come out is from Blue Coat, and it presents the top threat trends and infection sources for mobile devices.
While in 2014 the prime source of infection were mobile ads with a "market share" of 19.69%, in 2015, pornography apps and websites have managed to account for 36.13% of all infected mobile users.
This number is much greater than the 2013 value of 22.16%, when pornography websites also topped the list as the main source of infections on mobile devices.
Blue Coat says that, most of the time, infections come via malvertising attacks, and via websites that
distribute pornography apps that bundle hidden trojans in their code.
