Mobile threats¶

Smartphones hold more personal data than most people’s computers and are used for banking, messaging, and account authentication. That combination makes them worth targeting. Mobile malware was, for years, treated as a secondary concern by both users and security teams. Attackers noticed the gap.

The threats covered here are not hypothetical. Fake apps reach official stores, banking trojans target Android at scale, and SIM swapping has become a routine social-engineering technique. Location tracking via small Bluetooth devices has become a documented tool of domestic abuse.