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by John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc.

IOS Malware Growing Faster than Android

July 20, 2017

Mobile security company Skycure released results of its Mobile Threat Intelligence report that shows a dramatic growth of malware attacking Apple mobile devices. Skycure scanned enterprise iOS devices and found that 0.65% had "high-severity" malicious apps running on them in the first quarter, up from 0.21% in the third quarter last year. Android was "flat" during the same period. While the percentages are low, it is an indicator that things are going in the wrong direction for iOS. Skycure also released data concerning the number of vulnerabilities in iOS and Android.

Vulnerabilities

iOS

Android

2013

96

7

2014

122

13

2015

387

125

2016

161

523

2017 (YTD)

192

189

2017 (Projected)

643

500

Skycure is projecting a fourfold increase in iOS vulnerabilities over last year while Android is fairly flat. According to Skycure's vice president of marketing, "iOS is used on one of the more popular devices and that is where hackers are focusing and that is where the money is. A more affluent community tends to use the iPhone." That means the bad guys are focusing more on iPhones and iPads these days.

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