The second quarter of this year followed many trends observed in our first quarter report, but also introduced some interesting new perspectives on the mobile threat landscape. We continued to see a massive increase in mobile phishing and malicious web content being delivered to mobile users, disclosed Houthi-developed mobile spyware, and saw a higher number of iOS-targeted root enablers than we have in the past.

Lookout leverages AI to analyze data in the and identify malware, phishing attacks, and other sophisticated network-based threats. In this quarter’s report, we also aimed to dig in more deeply on some of our findings. For example, we answered the question of whether managed mobile devices have any more or less exposure to phishing and web-based attacks than unmanaged or BYOD devices. We also observed the percentage of reported iOS vulnerabilities that are of high or critical severity as teams aim to figure out what risks they actually need to spend time on.

Thanks to our industry-leading AI-driven dataset of more than 220 million devices, 325 million apps, and billions of web items, we are able to identify global trends that help inform security teams across every industry and geography about how to protect the data from mobile threats.

This report is a summary of our findings from the second quarter of 2024, and proves that mobile threats must be thought of as a significant part of the modern day enterprise security strategy. Nobody knows the mobile threat landscape like Lookout.