Karpagam JCS ISSN: 2582 – 8525 (Print), 2583 – 3669 (Online)

Cyber Crime Threads On Mobile Devices

Abstract
India emerged as the third most vulnerable country in terms of risk of cyber threats, such as malware, spam and ransomware, in 2017 moving up one place over the previous year according to solutions provider Symantec. Nowadays, smart devices with advanced capabilities like those of Tablets and Mobile phones are becoming more and more vulnerable to cyberattacks. The device is usually connected with Internet most of the time. This creates well-known, but not well- understood, threads from cyber criminals. The global threat ranking is based on eight metrics: malware, spam, phishing, bots, network attack, web attacks, ransomware and crypto miners. In this paper, we tried to identify threads on mobile devices and also discuss the solution for above the problem.

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