Did you know that mobile phones are becoming even more targeted by hackers than computers are? Check out these facts you may not have known about mobile security.

1. Startling Facts About
Mobile Security
15

2. Each second,
PSafe’s DFNDR Lab blocks
10 malicious URLs
FACT
#1

3. PSafe’s DFNDR Lab detected
FACT
#2
malicious URLs in 2017
17,099,443

4. Top 3 states most exposed to
phishing attacks:
Source: DFNDR Lab data from August 2017.
California
263,728
Florida
177, 278
Texas
263, 292
FACT
#3

5. FAKE ADS
The most common phishing scam:
FACT
#4

6. receive 3x more phishing
scams than women
Men
FACT
#5

7. Source: APGW Phishing Report 2016.
Phishing attacks increased by
65%
in 2016
FACT
#6

8. instant messages sent contain
a malicious link
1 in 50
FACT
#7

9. The second most common
phishing scam:
FAKE PROMOTIONS
FACT
#8

10. PSafe’s DFNDR Lab
80,000
detects and prevents
malicious URLs per day
FACT
#9

11. of banking-related
phishing attacks
start with a text message
72%
FACT
#10

12. Source: Statsitica/CNBC.
of smartphone owners make
an online purchase during
holiday shopping
43
have a security app
installed on their
smartphone
14
FACT
#11
% %

13. FAKE
of news stories
shared on social
media are10%
FACT
#12

14. 1 in 20 users
have received a banking-related phishing URL
FACT
#13

15. Hackers now target
these messaging apps:
FACT
#14

16. PSafe’s DFNDR Lab detected
phishing scams in
WhatsApp in September
3,421
FACT
#15