Pharmaceutical industry sees increase in mobile phishing encounters

Lookout's newest Pharmaceutical Industry Threat Report shows attackers have turned to spear phishing campaigns to steal employees’ login data or deliver malicious payloads to their mobile devices to compromise the infrastructure of pharma companies. 

Malicious actors are focused on mobile phishing because they can use any of the hundreds of apps the average person has on their mobile device. Attackers can socially engineer targets on a personal level through social media apps, messaging platforms, games, and even dating apps. An attacker will target particular individuals, including heads of research, manufacturing plant managers, sales leaders, or company executives, to gain privileged access to the data they want.