IT threat evolution Q2 2020. Mobile statistics

IT threat evolution Q2 2020. Mobile statistics

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These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products received from users who consented to provide statistical data.


Quarterly figures


According to Kaspersky Security Network, the second quarter saw:


1,245,894 detected malicious installers, of which
38,951 packages were related to mobile banking trojans
3,805 packages proved to be mobile ransomware trojans

A total of 14,204,345 attacks on mobile devices were blocked

Quarterly highlights


In summing up the results of the second quarter, we will begin with the number of attacks that targeted mobile devices. In Q2 2019, we thwarted 15,137,884 attacks, but one year later, the number decreased insignificantly, to 14,204,345.



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Number of attacks on mobile devices, Q1 2019 – Q2 2020 (download)


The absence of significant changes indicates that malware developers kept up their activities in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, this shows that we are not going through an epidemic caused by any particular family or class of mobile threats. In other words, no one reached the level of Asacub in yet another quarter, which is ..

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