Mobile Ads Displace Porn as Best Source for Mobile Malware
Malware is following us from our computer to our phones – so much so it’s now easier to obtain malicious malware from any mobile ads, even if you’re not using your phone to watch porn.
The findings come from Blue Coat: in February of 2014, 1 in 5 attacks on mobile phones actually came from malicious ads. That’s a 400% increase insect Nov. 2012, compared to porn, which fell to only 16% of all attacks.
However, as Quartz pointed out, Mobile ads only make up 10% of mobile traffic while porn is 1% of traffic while causing 16% the harm.
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