iOS more prone to attack than Android reveal analysts

2 years ago by 💭 ᴍɪɴʏᴀᴇɴ to c/cybersecurity

A massive analysis of hundreds of millions of devices has revealed that iOS is much more prone to attack than Android.

Dave 28 points 2 years ago

This article reads a bit weird. The report itself is linked: https://www.lookout.com/...

But as the article says, it's mainly saying iPhones fell to phishing attacks twice as often. But that isn't about the phone or OS it's about the users, and I am in no way surprised that iOS users fall to phishing attacks more often.

save

path: 0 14173337, hotness: undefined, score: 28, children: 2

minyaen 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that's how I read it. Its not that iphones are less secure (whether that's true or not), but not surprised that the users are objectively more prone to attack (which IMO, is the point of the article)

save

path: 0 14173337 14173671, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0

M33 2 points 2 years ago

Feels a little like a clickbait indeed

save

path: 0 14173337 14301290, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0

drspod 11 points 2 years ago

The report reveals that 19 percent of enterprise iOS devices have been victim to at least one phishing attack during the analyzed time period compared to 10.9 percent of enterprise Android devices.

lol ok

save

path: 0 14173273, hotness: undefined, score: 11, children: 3

thebardingreen 5 points 2 years ago

They're counting basic, shot gun style phishing texts and emails here. This suggests to me that they're not really measuring targeted attacks very well. Without reading about their methodology, I would guess that this might be more related to device use cases and policy differences in organizations to treatment of Android vs iOS devices, than it is related to phone model.

save

path: 0 14173273 14173674, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 0

BearOfaTime 2 points 2 years ago

Wow, that's a surprising stat. Users tend to be pretty complacent, though enterprise generally get repetitive warnings and education about this stuff.

SMB is even worse.

save

path: 0 14173273 14175222, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0

JWBananas 2 points 2 years ago

More accurately, and frankly, more interestingly:

Users of enterprise iOS devices nearly twice as likely to fall victim to phishing attacks as users of enterprise Android devices

save

path: 0 14173273 14176376, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0

reddig33 8 points 2 years ago

Define “attack”. There’s certainly more crapware in the Android store, not to mention sideloading.

save

path: 0 14173554, hotness: undefined, score: 8, children: 2

minyaen 3 points 2 years ago

If they had stated iOS "users" were more prone to attack, that may more accurately represent the intent of the article

save

path: 0 14173554 14173707, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 1

davel 2 points 2 years ago

We’ll never know whether this writer choose this headline, but probably not because it’s usually left to the copy editor.

save

path: 0 14173554 14173707 14174012, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0