How to stay safe in the face of surging mobile malware attacks?


Users can adopt solutions and good practice in the face of increased mobile malware attacks. — AFP Relaxnews

Since the beginning of February, the American IT security company, Proofpoint has detected a 500% increase in mobile malware delivery attempts in Europe, seeking to retrieve data from users’ smartphones. Faced with this upsurge, users can adopt solutions and good habits to keep themselves protected.

Malware is becoming ever more discreet, ever more intelligent and ever more devastating. Over the years, cellphones have become prime targets for hackers and scammers around the world to access specific information such as your identity, phone conversations or banking application passwords. For Proofpoint, it is difficult to determine what the 500% increase is due to, but it is real, and it is potentially dangerous.

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