{"id":230895,"date":"2026-04-03T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/android-and-ios-attacks-highlight-growing-enterprise-risk-from-mobile-devices\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T18:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:12:00","slug":"android-and-ios-attacks-highlight-growing-enterprise-risk-from-mobile-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/android-and-ios-attacks-highlight-growing-enterprise-risk-from-mobile-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Android and iOS attacks highlight growing enterprise risk from mobile devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emarketer.com\/content\/android-ios-attacks-highlight-growing-enterprise-risk-mobile-devices\">Android and iOS attacks highlight growing enterprise risk from mobile devices<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emarketer.com\/content\/android-ios-attacks-highlight-growing-enterprise-risk-mobile-devices\">https:\/\/www.emarketer.com\/content\/android-ios-attacks-highlight-growing-enterprise-risk-mobile-devices<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-03 17:40:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.emarketer.com\">www.emarketer.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#e91019;\"><strong>The news:<\/strong> <\/span>Two parallel threat reports confirm a sharp concentration of malware targeting Android and iOS mobile ecosystems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google\u2019s Play Store hosted 50 infected apps, which have been downloaded 2,300,000 times as of March 30, 2026 using \u201cNoVoice\u201d rootkit malware, per Forbes.<\/li>\n<li>Apple&#8217;s iPhones faced a threat called &#8216;DarkSword&#8217;\u2014a series of six security holes that worked together, allowing a hacker to take over devices when users visited a single website. The exploit was patched as of April 1, 2026, per Malwarebytes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google pulled the 50 infected apps and activated Play Protect to scrub them from devices, while Apple rushed out emergency patches to older and newer devices alike.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"SideMobile58259a87-bd5d-4566-b8f3-398d6b7396b8-77cd1217-89bf-40fe-a940-f74137251e85-8db7a5f1-8590-4f88-a88d-f4dd051ade72\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#e91019;\">Zooming in:<\/span><\/strong> Both the Android and iOS examples reflect an emerging trend: Phones are becoming the prime targets for criminals looking to steal personal data, spy on users, and take control of their systems.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#e91019;\">The threat on Android:<\/span> <\/strong>On Android phones, the NoVoice malware hides inside harmless-looking apps like photo galleries, games, or battery savers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Once installed, it quietly tries to break into the phone&#8217;s core system. If successful, a hacker can remotely access company emails, steal login credentials, and monitor every app a target opens.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>For a business, this could mean leaked client data, stolen financial records, or a hacker moving from an employee&#8217;s phone into the corporate network.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#e91019;\">The threat on iPhones:<\/span> <\/strong>On iPhones, the DarkSword exploit requires even less from the user. Just visiting a website\u2014perhaps through a news link or a sponsored ad\u2014can trigger the attack with no tapping, downloading, or warning signs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Once inside, a hacker could read internal Slack messages, access VPN configurations, or record sensitive meetings through the phone&#8217;s microphone.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>For a company, this could mean trade secrets exposed, executive communications intercepted, or a backdoor planted into the entire IT system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#e91019;\">What brands should do:<\/span> <\/strong>Require updated devices, educate employees to stop&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emarketer.com\/content\/android-ios-attacks-highlight-growing-enterprise-risk-mobile-devices\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android and iOS attacks highlight growing enterprise risk from mobile devices https:\/\/www.emarketer.com\/content\/android-ios-attacks-highlight-growing-enterprise-risk-mobile-devices Publish Date: 2026-04-03&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.emarketer.com\/content\/storage\/b837179cbc6545eeb1b32fee81ca050d\/original_hero_image?im=FitAndFill,width=763,height=457","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[31,70,35,32,57],"class_list":["post-230895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-exploit","tag-google","tag-hacker","tag-malware","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230897,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230895\/revisions\/230897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}