Verizon: Attacks on Mobile Devices Rise

guest · Feb 25, 2020

Verizon: Attacks on Mobile Devices Rise
February 25, 2020
https://www.darkreading.com/mobile/verizon-attacks-on-mobile-devices-rise/d/d-id/1337136

The theme of Verizon's 2020 Mobile Security Index is innovation - on the part of both enterprise security professionals and the attackers trying to work past their best efforts.

Mobile devices are getting abused by cybercriminals, but companies are still giving those devices the security short-shrift. "About 40% of our respondents across the board report having a mobile security compromise," says Bryan Sartin, executive director of global security services at Verizon. That's an increase from 33% of organizations in Verizon's 2019 report.

Small and medium-sized businesses made up 28% of the victims, while those with over 500 employees represented 44% of the total.
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Verizon: Verizon Mobile Security Index 2020

guest · Mar 4, 2020

Mobile Attacks Outpace Desktop Assaults
March 4, 2020
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/mobile-attacks-outpace-desktop/

For the first time in cybercrime's history, more attacks have been waged against mobile devices than have been hurled at desktops.
This seminal shift in attack strategy was recorded by researchers at LexisNexis Risk Solutions during the creation of their latest cybercrime report, "Fraud Without Borders."

The report is based on the analysis of 19 billion transactions that took place on LexisNexis' Digital Identity Network between July and December last year. Among those transactions, researchers identified 401 million attacks, 264 million of which targeted mobile devices, while 137 million struck at desktops.

Commenting on the online crime world's historic change of tack, researchers wrote: "Although this is heavily influenced by a key global bot attack, it nevertheless shows a shift in focus of global cybercrime towards targeting the mobile channel.
When comparing different types of attacks on mobile devices, researchers found that mobile browser transactions were attacked at a higher rate than mobile app transactions. However, attacks on mobile apps were observed to have grown at a rate of 171% year on year.
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guest · Aug 24, 2021

Verizon on managing the mobile threat landscape
August 24, 2021
https://www.lightreading.com/security/verizon-on-managing-mobile-threat-landscape/d/d-id/771683

Verizon Business' Terrance Robinson joins the podcast to share key findings from the service provider's Mobile Security Index.

In addition, Robinson shares insights about which mobile security threats are on the rise, and how enterprises and their employees can identify and address potential threats. The full report can be downloaded here.

"We're seeing over a 360% year-over-year increase in phishing attempts on mobile devices," says Robinson, head of sales and marketing enterprise for mobile and cybersecurity for Verizon Business. Bad actors are increasingly targeting text messages in their phishing attempts because the rate at which consumers read text messages is 98%, and 45% respond to those messages. By comparison, only 20% of email is viewed, with a 6% response rate, says Robinson.
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Verizon: Verizon Mobile Security Index 2021

guest · Aug 9, 2022

Verizon: Mobile attacks up double digits from 2021
August 4, 2022

With the proliferation of mobile devices and hybrid work environments where employees often use their personal devices for work-related activities almost half (45%) of respondents of the Verizon Mobile Security Index 2022 said their organizations were subject to a security incident involving a mobile device that led to data loss, downtime or other negative outcome—a 22% increase over 2021’s numbers.

Of those respondents, 73% said the impact of the attack was “major” and 42% said that it had lasting repercussions. In 2021, less than half of incidents were described as major and just 28% were said to have had lasting repercussions, the report said.
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Despite these results, 36% of respondents said that mobile devices are of less interest to cybercriminals than other IT assets—an increase of six percentage points from the 2021 MSI report.

“Mobile has historically been overlooked by information security teams, largely because these modern devices are perceived to be inherently safe and protected from legacy threats,” Michael Covington, VP of portfolio strategy at Jamf, an Apple device management company that contributed to the MSI report.
“But the reality is that mobile devices are always on, always connected, and always vulnerable to risk.”
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Verizon: Verizon Mobile Security Index 2022

Gain critical mobile security insights from our in-depth survey and analysis of 632 mobile security professionals around the world—to help protect your business from today's mobile security threats.
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(PDF): https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/2022-msi-report.pdf

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