Apr 9, 2025
Threat actors are increasingly leveraging mobile devices as initial point of compromise
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lookout, Inc., the data-centric cloud security company, today released the Lookout Annual Threat Landscape Report. The report is based on data derived from Lookout Security Cloud’s ever-growing AI-driven mobile dataset of more than 230 million devices, 375 million apps, and billions of web items. In addition, Lookout leverages AI to help analyze data and identify malware, phishing attacks and other sophisticated threats.
Lookout data for 2024 also reveals:
- Lookout observed that 26% of iOS devices were targeted by threat actors with phishing attacks versus Android users (12%) in 2024.
- Globally, the APAC region has the highest phishing encounter rates, followed by EMEA and North America.
- 427,000 malicious apps were detected on enterprise devices, which can vary widely from infostealers to sophisticated spyware.
- Lookout implemented protection against 159 new mobile malware families, and enhanced protection against 247 known families.
- The vast majority of malware discoveries were classified as trojan malware, followed by surveillanceware and adware.
- The most critical families of mobile malware continued to lean heavily towards Android surveillanceware
- Top device misconfigurations include out-of-date OS (29.5%), out-of-date Android Security Patch Levels (ASPL) (11.5%), no device lock (12%) and no encryption (3.3%)