A new report by Upstream reveals that South Africa, Brazil and Indonesia seem to be the epicenter of a new mobile malware pandemic. More than 45,000 malicious apps were in circulation in these emerging markets throughout the pandemic, many of them employing new sophisticated tactics to get onto people s handsets and trigger fraudulent transactions. For the first time ever, mobile games were the number one most targeted app category, but malicious apps took on the form of many other productivity apps and tools.
Source: https://threatpost.com/how-mobile-ad-fraud-has-evolved-in-the-year-of-the-pandemic/166430/