Executive Summary: Mobile Targeting is a Canary in the Coalmine
As is the case every year, 2024 brought about countless new cybersecurity challenges including significant growth of the mobile threat landscape. Threat actors, ranging from nation-states to individuals, have increasingly begun to target mobile devices at the onset of their attacks.
Organizations of every size across every industry need to view mobile targeting as a canary in the coal mine - an early indication that they could be under attack elsewhere in their infrastructure.
Threat actors are aware that mobile devices are one of the most common blind spots in any organization, which is why they go there first. The complexity of mobile ecosystems and tricky balance between security and privacy leads many security teams to shy away from treating them like every other data-rich endpoint in their organization.
The purpose of this report is to help security teams understand where they need to look in order to secure their mobile fleet, which in turn leads to an airtight endpoint security posture. In addition, understanding where AI can be a defensive asset is just as critical as understanding how threat actors are using it on offense.
By breaking down mobile phishing attacks, malware discoveries, exploitable vulnerabilities, and device misconfiguration risks, Lookout gives direction to teams who know mobile is a risk but don’t have the visibility to know where to start.
Researchers in the Lookout Threat Lab note some particularly concerning findings that show the importance of getting ahead of the modern threat actor.
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