Mobile devices have been at the crux of some of the year's most notable and high-profile attacks. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' alleged iPhone compromise incident became a key example of how mobile devices can be penetrated without sophisticated brute-force hacking or techniques.
Simple phishing is the most common way mobile devices are compromised, and this threat is on the rise thanks to the increase in mobile device adoption and the surge in remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Not surprisingly, there was a 37% increase worldwide in enterprise mobile phishing between fourth quarter of 2019 and the first quarter of 2020, according to Lookout. Malicious Wi-Fi hotspots and malicious applications are other common entry points to mobile device compromise.