Stalkerware on the rise globally

There is a huge spike in stalkerware installation attempts on mobile devices this calendar year so far. Hackers try to deploy stalkerware to spy on people’s private life. Good news is that the number has seen a sharp decrease in India.

Cybersecurity experts see over 37,000 stalkerware intrusion attempts in the first eight months of this year, showing an increase of 35 per cent when compared to the numbers in the same period previous year. In India, however, the number has gone down by 67 per cent.

Cybersecurity experts at Kaspersky see a widening of the problem as they discovered 380 different types of stalkerware being used. This number has gone up by 31 per cent during the period under observation.