Russian handsets addicted to malware up 70%

Russian handsets have been found addicted to malware, up 70% because domestic-based apps are not available on the official App Store.

According to a report by the website, Meduza made reference to a survey report by a business newspaper from Russia, Kommersant, that found that the rate of malware addiction on Russian mobile phones skyrocketed sharply by 70% in the early 2026 (d. In 1926, the report also referred to the monitoring system of MegaFon, Russia's second-largest mobile phone network operator, which found that most of the malware-infected mobile phones are on the Android operating system. The top-level malware outbreak is a malware type that steals money from the victim's bank account (Banking Trojan) called Mamont, which has a 10-12% share of all malware, and has skyrocketed to 15% in the early years. This malware has the ability to access short messages (SMS or Short Message Service), alerts. (Notification), Payment Data and Personal Data Recorded on Board

In addition, a research team from F6, a cybersecurity expert, also found that a malware-based campaign had been found to be running since 2023. 2566), which resulted in up to 1.5% of the malware on Android systems, or up to 1.5 million of all Android mobile phones in Russia. By the cause of the heavy malware outbreak, an executive from AppSec Solutions, an application security expert, revealed that the Russians did not have access to the official app store, making it necessary to find application installers in the form of APK files from various sources, many of which are not original clean applications, but malware latency, leading to the current heavy malware outbreak.

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