At the 2019 Mobile World Congress, McAfee released its newest Mobile Threat Report. This latest report revealed a few startling stats about 2018’s malware threats and announced an unsettling prediction for 2019’s threats. McAfee has deemed 2019 as “the year of everywhere malware.”
McAfee released its latest Mobile Threat Report at the 2019 Mobile World Congress (MWC) and with it came some startling revelations about 2018 and at least one particularly unsettling prediction about the malware attacks to come in 2019.
According to TechRadar, the computer security software company reported that the number of threats against Internet of Things gadgets and mobile devices increased quickly in 2018. The types of threats addressed in the report included banking Trojans, malicious crypto mining apps, mobile backdoors, and the development of fake apps.
McAfee’s 2019 Mobile Threat Report mentioned that banking Trojans experienced “a 2x increase” from June to September 2018.
