The Vulnerabilities, threats and attacks on mobile platform

The Vulnerabilities, threats and attacks on mobile platform

1. Android Attacks

   • Untrusted APK’s
   • SMS
   • Email
   • Spying
   • App sandboxing issues
   • Rooting

2. User behavior

   • To incidents such as user errors, stolen or lost devices, and remains one of the top challenges in security management.
   • The likelihood of an organization’s mobile devices being lost or stolen is increased when an employee takes home those devices for example
   • Similar risk occurs when employees fall victims to phishing attacks.

3. Device-relatedand

   • to those that areinherent in the mobile device as a result of its hardware configuration or software applications.
   • According to McAfee, mobile applications tend to overuse mobile device telemetry and are more likely to deploy malware onto your device.
   • As a result, the risk of data or information leakage can even be higher in mobile devices.

4. External Threats

   • To the diverse attack methods utilized by threat actors. .
   • Few of the common mobile threats include mobile ransomware, financial malware, spyware and remote access tools.

5. Jail Breaking

   • Jailbreaking disables code signing on iPhones to run apps not from the App Store
   • This breaks almost all the protections iOS offers.
   • First, it disables code signing, which opens the platform up to malware.
   • The jailbreaking patches also somewhat disable data execution prevention by allowing writable and executable memory, which isn’t normally in iOS.
   • The openness that jailbreaking offers also introduces potential security problems.
   • Many of the added nonsigned applications run at the root level without a sandbox.