Malware Attacks Affect 10 Million Mobile Devices Worldwide: Report

A woman uses a smartphone in front of a laptop in Abidjan, on April 3, 2019. ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP via Getty Images

Malicious actors are waging “increasingly sophisticated” attacks on smartphone and app users, according to a new report from U.S. mobile security firm Zimperium.

According to its Global Mobile Threat Report 2022, around 30 percent of “zero-day” vulnerabilities—a known weakness in a system that has yet to be patched—were found in mobile devices over the course of 2021.