On the contrary, the number of attacks by the riskware family (loan apps that request access to users’ text messages, contact list and photos) more than quadrupled from the first quarter. For instance, J-Lightning Application purported to help users to invest into a Polish oil refinery, a Russian energy company, a Chinese cryptocurrency exchange and an American investment fund.
Interestingly enough, some fraudulent app creators were targeting users from several countries at once. That said, the total number of attacks by these apps started to decrease. Number of attacks targeting users of Kaspersky mobile solutions, Q1 2020 - Q2 2022 ( download)Īs in the previous quarter, fraudulent apps occupied seven out of twenty leading positions in the malware rankings.
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