Various Trojans came close behind with 20.49%, a rise of 5.81 p.p. More than half (60.16%) of the discovered apps of that type belonged to the Robtes family. The previous leader, the RiskTool riskware, moved to second place with 20.81% of all detected threats, a decline of 27.94 p.p. This was followed by the (22.54%) and (8.88%) families.
A third of all detected threats of that class were objects of the family (33.21%).
In Q2 2022, Kaspersky detected 405,684 malicious installation packages, a reduction of 110,933 from the previous quarter and a year-on-year decline of 480,421.ĭistribution of newly detected mobile malware by type, Q1 and Q2 2022 ( download)Īdware ranked first among all threats detected in Q2 2022 with 25.28%, exceeding the previous quarter’s figure by 8.36 percentage points.
This aggressively spreading banking Trojan attacked mainly users in Europe and Australia. The second quarter was also noteworthy for Europol taking down the infrastructure of the FluBot mobile botnet, also known as Polph and Cabassous. The ten most-affected countries include Kenya, Brazil, Peru, Pakistan, Nigeria, Uganda and the Philippines. The majority of users whose devices were found to be infected with this riskware were based in Mexico: a third of the total number of those attacked. 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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