7th April 2017 By Sead Fadilpašić
Mobile users frequently stray from official app stores when looking for new mobile applications, putting themselves under increased risk from malware, ransomware and other malicious actors. This is according to a new report by RiskIQ, which says that users in the UK are a bit more “conservative,” and a bit more on the safe side compared to mobile users in the US.
The report, entitled “Appsession: Is our appetite for mobile apps putting us at risk?” is based on a poll of 2,000 mobile users — 1,000 in the UK and another 1,000 in the US.
It says that 14 percent of users jailbreak their mobile devices to modify their operating systems, to use other service providers and to download apps that they otherwise wouldn’t be able to use. However, it’s exactly this jailbreaking that’s causing trouble.
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