Kaspersky reports on the abnormal decline of the mobile malware in Bahrain as cybercriminals shift from quantity towards quality

Kaspersky reports on the abnormal decline of the mobile malware in Bahrain as cybercriminals shift from quantity towards quality

Other countries in Middle East faced a similar trend: Egypt saw a staggering 52% decrease, followed by Qatar (47%), Kuwait (46%), UAE (29%) and Oman (27%). The only two countries where the dynamic was different were Saudi Arabia with a 19% increase and Turkey, where the share increased by an anomalous 67%. This dynamic is a reflection of the global trend, as cybercriminals tend to invest less and less into the mainstream threats that are successfully neutralized by modern security solution. Instead, they choose to invest more into new mobile malware has become increasingly complex, featuring new ways to steal users’ banking and gaming credentials, as well as other strands of personal data. For instance, in 2021 Kaspersky detected more than 95,000 new mobile banking Trojans in the world, but the number of attacks using such malware remained similar. Additionally, the share of Trojans – malicious programs capable of executing remote commands – doubled, reaching 8.8% in 2021. In addition to the strategic changes on the mobile threat landscape, experts also attribute the overall decline of mobile malware in 2021 to the enormous wave of attacks seen at the beginning of lockdown in 2020 as users were forced to work