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    25% Users Don’t Understand Risks of Mobile Cyberthreats: Kaspersky

    MOBILITY INDIABy MOBILITY INDIAFebruary 27, 2015No Comments2 Mins Read
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    The survey shows that only 58% of Android-based smartphones and 63% of Android tablets are protected by an anti-virus solution, while 31% of smartphones and 41% of tablets are not even password-protected. Their users’ risky behavior might stem from the fact that 28% of them are not aware of the existence of cyberthreats targeting mobiles and 26% of those surveyed said they were aware but didn’t worry about it.

    To make matters worse 18% of unprotected Android-based smartphones contain precisely the information that attackers are most eager to find: PIN codes for bank cards, passwords to online banking systems and other financial data. 24% of them store passwords to social networks, personal and work e-mail, VPN and other sensitive resources. Even though users can’t be bothered to set a password to stop unauthorized access to their devices, they still store personal emails (49%), work emails (18%), as well as the “data that they would not want anyone to see” (10%) on their smartphones.

    According to the survey, Android users encounter online threats more often than the users of Windows-based devices*. The latter also know more about the dangers and tend to protect their devices in 9 out of 10 cases. Thus the survey found that over a 12-month period 41% of smartphone users and 36% of tablet users faced malicious applications, 18% of smartphone users and 24% of tablet users had their online service accounts hacked, while financial cyberattacks affected 43% of smartphone users and 50% of tablet users. The average figures for all devices based on different platforms accounted for 31% (malicious applications), 14% (hacking online service accounts) and 43% (financial cyberattacks) – significantly lower than the Android-only figures.

    “It is not surprising that mobile users are facing online threats more often now: devices are capable of doing so much more, and many more people are using them, so of course they will attract fraudsters. To avoid falling victim to scams, users are advised to protect their devices against cyberthreats and be especially careful with any sensitive data stored on them,” said Victor Yablokov, Head of Mobile Product Line at Kaspersky Lab.

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