Corrata's Mobile Security Blog

This week it was announced that two major international companies, airline British Airways and hotel giant Marriott International, would be fined £183 million ($228 million) and £99 million ($123 million) respectively for data breaches that infringed new requirements set out by the EU’s General Data Protection Legislation (GDPR). The record penalties, issued by the UK’s […]

As users are steadily moving away from desktop and favoring mobile devices, it is inevitable that hackers will also switch their tactics. And as an increasing number of sensitive and high-value tasks are carried out on mobile devices, mobile specific threats are fast becoming a major concern. Mobile malware, in its many different forms and […]

Tourists crossing the border into the Xinjiang region in China are being forced to install a piece of malware on their phones capable of downloading text messages and scanning over 70,000 different files, a collaboration by Motherboard, Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Guardian, the New York Times, and the German public broadcaster NDR has found.  The Uighur […]

Anyone that reads tech blogs or is following the latest industry news on social media will know that one of the most significant cyber-threats facing organizations today is mobile malware. On almost a daily basis, we are bombarded with articles and news reports detailing the latest malware strands making the rounds or the malicious apps […]

Anti-virus, Mobile Device Management and Mobile Threat Defense won’t help against today’s attacks – so where should you look for protection ? On May 13th the Financial Times reported that a recently discovered vulnerability in the hugely popular messaging app WhatsApp had allowed attackers to inject commercial spyware onto mobile devices. The hack involved the […]

Last week, Part 1 of our two-part series outlined the current defense systems offered by Apple and Google, two of the world’s biggest mobile operating system developers, to protect devices from mobile malware. We found that despite strict content requirements and security scans, malicious and suspicious apps are still able to make their way onto […]

Mobile malware can take many different forms. Spyware, adware, ransomware, and Trojans are commonly hidden in seemingly innocent apps and communications designed to fool users to take over, damage, and steal information from mobile devices. And with 42 million mobile malware attacks occurring every year, the problem only seems to be getting worse. In this […]

Following the discovery of a vulnerability (documented here) that allows the remote installation of spyware on mobile devices, WhatApp has issued a warning to all 1.5 billion of its users to update to the latest version of its app. Uncovered by Facebook-owned WhatsApp in early May, the vulnerability was found to leverage a bug in […]

For most smartphone and tablet users, installing an app is a simple and safe process that involves purchasing or downloading a file from their designated app store. However, there is an alternative to the official Apple App Store or Google Play Store which although beneficial to the user, has also proven to present considerable risks. […]