2019 could be the year of ‘universally malware’- Warned by McAfee
Over at MWC 2019, McAfee.com/activate has exposed its latest Mobile Threat Report, which highpoints an upsetting rise in crypto-mining and fake-apps activity. While the security firm believes that 2019 will be the year of ‘universally malware’. We’ll come back to that prediction, but the core explanations of the latest Mobile Threat Report were that there was a rapid growth in threats against mobile devices and IoT gadgets in 2018. Exactly, McAfee points to the rise of backdoors in banking Trojans, mobile apps, and crypto-mining activity, with over 600 different malicious crypto-mining apps found across 20 app stores. The most worrying trend highlighted, though, was the growth of straight-up fake apps, with the numerous McAfee detected rising sharply from 10,000 in June 2018 to almost 65,000 by the end of the year. That included fake Fortnite apps, such as some imagining being the beta versions of the mobile game when it was being tested last August. Any high pie...