Q2 2019 Mobile Threat Landscape Report

The digital revolution is causing businesses to invest significantly in mobile, where they can make more frequent and more meaningful interactions with employees, prospects, and customers. Global app spending hit $101 billion in 2018 and will surpass that this year. However, mobile is a significant portion of the overall corporate attack surface that exists beyond the firewall, where security teams often suffer from a critical lack of visibility.

Rogue mobile assets such as fake apps are purpose-built to fool customers into downloading them by impersonating legitimate businesses. Once downloaded, they can phish users for sensitive information or upload malware to their devices. For businesses, even though they don’t own or manage these apps, they’re still responsible for detecting and addressing them.

For the past ten years, RiskIQ’s discovery platform has mapped the global mobile threat landscape. It now monitors more than 120 mobile app stores around the world and scans nearly two billion resources daily to look for mobile apps in the wild. With this internet-wide telemetry, RiskIQ observes and categorizes the threat landscape as a user would see it, downloading analyzing, and storing every app we encounter while recording changes and new versions.