Android threats in 2025: When your phone becomes the main attack surface www.malwarebytes.com/blog/mobi…
Android users spent 2025 walking a tighter rope than ever, with malware, data‑stealing apps, and SMS‑borne scams all climbing sharply while attackers refined their business models around mobile data and access.
Looking back, we may view 2025 as the year when one-off scams were replaced on the score charts by coordinated, well-structured, attack frameworks.
Comparing two equal six‑month periods—December 2024 through May 2025 versus June through November 2025—our data shows Android adware detections nearly doubled (90% increase), while PUP detections increased by roughly two‑thirds and malware detections by around half.
The strong rise in SMS-based attacks we flagged in June indicates that 2025 is the payoff year. The capabilities to steal one‑time passcodes are no longer experimental; they’re being rolled into campaigns at scale.
