One user from Melbourne, said: ' I was using my iPad a short while ago when suddenly it locked itself. In May of 2014, a large number of people mostly located in Australia and the UK, are reporting they have come under an unexplained attack that holds their iPhones and iPads hostage and demands they pay a $100 ransom. JD Sherry of Trend Micro discussed the latest mobile security trends and threats at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit. He touches on the shift of ransomware from PCs to mobile devices. Here is a roundup of the latest mobile threats: iPhone RansomwareĪfter ransomware hit Windows PCs and Android devices, some miscreant has found a way to pull a similar scam for Apple devices. That was my quote in a September 2012 CNN Money article titled Your smartphone will (eventually) be hacked, and boy has it ever come true. Malware on mobile phones is going to be as prevalent as on the PC. 'The money is in mobile, and that's where they're moving. So why hasn't the smartphone Armageddon happened yet?

Like PCs back in the early days - the 1990s - mobile phones are largely unprotected by antivirus software, and they're a treasure trove of valuable information. Security experts have warned for years that our smartphones are due for a major cyberattack.

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