More than 1.5 million new incidents of mobile malware have been detected by McAfee Labs in the first quarter of the year. 20 percent of companies surveyed by Check Point Software said their mobile devices have been breached. Nearly all (94 percent) expected the frequency of mobile attacks to increase, and 79 percent acknowledged that its becoming more difficult to secure mobile devices. State actors are looking at ways to infect mobile devices with spyware. Mobile botnets can quickly turn mobile devices into a botnet that is controlled by hackers without the knowledge of their owners.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2157785/five-new-threats-to-your-mobile-security.html