Head of the Russian research center of Kaspersky Lab Maria Namestnikova
However, no specific statistics yetno, but it is obvious that the choice of attackers fell on smartphones because this is a less secure segment. If computers are closely monitored by the company's information security service, then this practice is not yet widely used with respect to smartphones.
Hackers who carry out such attacks are called A.T.advanced persistent threat is a term in cybersecurity that refers to an adversary that poses a high level of threat. And if earlier they were aimed at Windows, now they are on Android, with all the consequences.
The biggest value for such hackers is logins and passwords that provide access to corporate networks.
“I would attribute this to the fact that the last couple of yearsA lot of people have started working remotely. Some even work only from a smartphone. And smartphones are a less secure segment for hackers. If our corporate computers are monitored by the information security service, then this practice is not yet widely used with smartphones, ”Namestnikova noted.