Mobile Adware Booms, Online Banks Become Prime Target for Attacks
minute read Share this article: A snapshot of the 2020 mobile threat landscape reveals major shifts toward adware and threats to online banks. Hackers painted a bullseye on the backs of online financial institutions in 2020 as the pandemic shuttered local branch offices and forced customers online. Over the past 12 months, incidents of adware nearly tripled. And, overall in 2020 researchers saw a slight drop in the number of mobile cyberattacks, according to a report released Monday by Kaspersky. In its’ Mobile Malware Evolution 2020, Kaspersky documents the current mobile thr...