Hidden apps, 3rd-party logins behind 50% smartphone threats: Report

Hackers are using hidden mobile apps, third-party login and counterfeit gaming videos to target consumers via their personal devices and such apps resulted in approximately 50 per cent of all malicious threats in 2019, a new McAfee ‘Mobile Threat Report 2020’ said on Wednesday.
Last year, hackers targeted consumers with a wide variety of methods, from backdoors to mining cryptocurrencies. WhatsApp snooping via Israeli spyware Pegasus has shown smartphones have become new-age surveillance tools.
The research found that hackers have expanded the ways of hiding their attacks, making them increasingly difficult to identify and remove, which makes it seem like 2020 will be the year of mobile sneak attacks.