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Mobile malware saw a significant increase in the third quarter, with people spending more time on their mobiles, and Asia at the center of the outbreak.
Read more on the latest findings by Upstream's security platform: https://t.co/aKlOaKHibx#cybersecurity #mobilesecurity #malware pic.twitter.com/nsx1EDqEq5— Upstream (@UpstreamGlobal) November 24, 2020In Brazil, the number of blocked transactions rose 77% from the previous quarter, to 76 million.And Côte d'Ivoire also saw a spike, with fraudulent transactions more than doubling to 156,885 from 72,361 in the quarter before.Malware appears particularly strongly focused on Android apps, with nine of the ten worst offending apps in the third quarter, and 37 of the top 50, at some point available on Google Play.Other security researchers are reporting similar figures, with McAfee seeing new malware samples growing by 11.5% in the second quarter.Bot needs cacheThe global pandemic saw "quick adaptation by cybercriminals to target organizations through employees working from remote environments," says Raj Samani, cybersecurity firm McAfee's chief scientist."What began as a trickle of phishing campaigns and the occasional malicious app quickly turned into a deluge of malicious URLs," he says.A series of three Emotet botnets (short for robot networks), controlled from Russia, saw a 1,200% increase in detections from July to September, compared to the previous three months when Emotet-linked malware seemed to be in decline.Want to know more about security? Check out our dedicated security channel here on Light Reading.A botnet is a network of computers infected by malware under the control of a single attacker, known as the bot-herder.The oldest and largest focus on size, with the relatively simple Cutwail botnet sending 74 billion messages a day.Slightly more sophisticated networks, like the Windows-based ZeuS botnets controlled out of eastern Europe, target large companies and credit card holders for their financial data.Other, more specialist, botnets target their incursions at companies' high-value intellectual property and research and development activities.Emotet often gains a foothold into networks by phishing emails, and thread hijacking, to make emails look more legitimate, since people are more likely to download an attachment that appears to come from someone they know.Related posts:COVID-19 has driven international traffic 47% higher – TeleGeographyChina and COVID-19 speed up worldwide 5G adoptionCOVID-19 fails to put brakes on 5G rollout – reportSingtel underlying profit down 36% as COVID-19 still bitesIs the COVID-19 pandemic a catalyst for the fourth industrial revolution?— Pádraig Belton, contributing editor, special to Light Reading
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