

Last year saw repeat incidents of malicious code injection into popular apps through ad SDKs, as in the sensational case of CamScanner - we found malicious code inside ad libraries in the official APKPure client, as well as in a modified WhatsApp build.Įxperts also continued to find malware in apps on Google Play, despite Google’s efforts to keep threats off the platform. But it is too early to celebrate: attacks are becoming more sophisticated in terms of both malware functionality and vectors. In 2021, we observed a downward trend in the number of attacks on mobile users. 3,464,756 malicious installation packages.

In 2021, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected:

These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products received from users who consented to providing statistical data.
