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Lightning strike more likely than mobile malware

Just 9,688 phones in the U.S. showed signs of active infection, according to mobile security vendor Damballa. That’s a rate of 0.0064 percent, compared to 0.008 percent for lightning. The lifetime odds of being struck by lightning are 25 percent higher, the National Weather Service says. Most US smartphone users get their applications from the official app stores, the stores do a good job at keeping malicious apps out. Most of the malware that is commonly found on smartphones falls into the gray area between adware and malware.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2912408/lightning-strike-more-likely-than-mobile-malware.html

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