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By David Richardson
The last few weeks have marked a chaotic turning point in the mobile threat landscape. We’ve seen mass exploitations across numerous iOS versions by multiple threat actors, driven by sophisticated exploit chains like Coruna and now DarkSword. What makes these threats different is not just their activity, but their trajectory. Until recently, these capabilities were expensive, highly secretive, and limited to a small number of advanced actors. Now, that dynamic has shifted rapidly.
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By Lookout
Last week, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group announced the disruption of IPIDEA, one of the largest and most abused residential proxy networks observed in the wild. IPIDEA quietly turned millions of consumer devices into proxy exit nodes, enabling cybercrime, espionage, and botnet activity—while putting users and enterprises at risk. At Lookout, we acted immediately.
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By Lookout
If your organization hasn’t encountered a vishing attack yet, it’s probably only a matter of time. Vishing, or voice phishing, is a sophisticated type of social engineering that adds a whole new dimension to common scams. Rather than emails or text messages, threat actors employ phone calls or online voice calls to carry out vishing schemes. Particularly savvy attackers can even copy a real person’s voice to deceive, coerce, or manipulate potential victims.
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By Lookout
Mobile security has always been complex, but LLM technology has added a whole new dimension to the field. Behind every popular generative AI (genAI) tool is a comprehensive large language model (LLM) that provides data and parses queries in natural language. When used responsibly, LLMs can be useful tools for ideation and content generation. In the wrong hands, though, LLMs can help threat actors supercharge their social engineering scams.
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By Lookout
Over the past few years, artificial intelligence (AI) has supercharged deepfake technology. Creating a fake picture, video, or audio recording of a person used to require a considerable investment of both time and technical skills. Now, generative AI (genAI) platforms can whip up convincing deepfakes in minutes, using only a single photo or short voice clip as a starting point.
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By Lookout
If your organization uses a private large language model (LLM), then it’s time to start thinking about countermeasures for jailbreaking. A jailbroken LLM can lead to leaked information, compromised devices, or even a large-scale data breach. Even more troubling: Jailbreaking LLMs is often as simple as feeding them a series of clever prompts. If your customers can access your LLM, your potential risk is even higher.
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By Lookout
Generative AI is rapidly transforming the way we work. The large language models (LLMs) that power tools like ChatGPT and Claude are immensely powerful, capable of providing us with research data, detailed insights, and even deep analysis of documents and data sets, all performed through simple, text-based prompts. However, these prompts have unfortunate side effects for the IT professionals assigned to protect sensitive and proprietary data from cyber attacks.
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By Lookout
The history of computing is marked by sea change moments; those times when the world seems to shift into a new possibility space almost overnight. ENIAC. The personal computer. The World Wide Web. The smartphone. And now, AI. While the term “AI” has been applied to many new (or re-branded) services and products, the underlying technology that makes most of them feel like magic is the large language model (LLM).
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By Lookout
It’s easy to think about securing an organization’s data like building a bank vault. You focus on defenses that are impermeable to unauthorized parties: doors hardened against drills, walls resistant to impacts, and countermeasures for any number of other illicit access methods. Ultimately, you feel confident that only people with the right clearance will get in.
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By Firas Azmeh
Modern businesses are more reliant on mobile devices than ever before. Employees need smartphones and tablets for communication, productivity, and even security authentication. As remote and hybrid work setups become more common, mobile technology is necessary for keeping workers connected to their organizations. At the same time, these devices expose a weak link in the cybersecurity chain: the human layer.
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By Lookout
In moments. No warning. No trace. Total takeover. In March 2026, a new breed of mobile threat emerged: DarkSword. This sophisticated iOS exploit chain doesn’t need a phishing link or a malicious app download. Just one visit to a compromised website is enough to expose your entire enterprise. In this video, we dissect the DarkSword attack path—from the initial Safari iframe encounter to the kernel-level takeover—and show you how the threat disappears before most security teams even know it’s there.
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By Lookout
In this video, David Richardson, Product CTO at Lookout, provides a strategic overview of the evolving mobile threat landscape based on Q3 2025 global enterprise data. Key Insights: Dominant Attack Vectors: Mobile phishing and social engineering remain the most significant threat categories. Attackers are increasingly using AI-powered tools to craft authentic-looking messages and conduct deep research for highly targeted attacks.
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By Lookout
Cybercriminals are evolving—and so are their tactics. Smishing, or SMS phishing, has become one of the fastest-growing mobile threats. With AI, attackers can now create convincing, personalized messages in seconds—removing language barriers and making scams harder than ever to detect. That’s where Lookout Smishing AI comes in. Our advanced AI-powered detection goes beyond scanning for malicious links. It identifies the intent behind every message—stopping social engineering attacks before they reach you. Whether there’s a URL or not, Lookout keeps your mobile workforce protected.
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By Lookout
*Catch Lookout's On-Demand Session from Black Hat 2025!* Your digital identity is the crown jewel, and adversaries are bypassing traditional network and EDR defenses by weaponizing the human element. The modern kill chain has evolved, exploiting our most ubiquitous and often least-secured endpoints: mobile devices. This isn't theoretical; it's the operational reality for sophisticated threat actors.
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By Lookout
Explore details of the most recent feature updates to Lookout SSE. May's updates include Domain Fronting, Data Integrity, Enterprise Site Context, and our new Virtual Demo Center.
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By Lookout
As federal agencies shift beyond perimeter defenses, cyber threats are evolving—targeting identity, data, and mobile devices at the front line of today’s attacks, which can now infiltrate systems and exfiltrate data in minutes rather than months. While Zero Trust provides the foundation for defense, starting with a simple mobile threat defense solution can break down modernization barriers. Learn how a mobile-first approach strengthens Zero Trust, accelerates modernization, and safeguards federal networks from the modern kill chain.
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By Lookout
Jim Coyle, U.S. Public Sector CTO at Lookout, discusses the challenges government agencies face in embracing mobility, cloud security, and AI. While modernization efforts are progressing, many organizations still struggle with security concerns, particularly around mobile devices, which are increasingly targeted by cyber threats. Coyle highlights the need for stronger public-private partnerships to accelerate secure digital transformation. He also shares the importance of understanding data sovereignty in AI and improving endpoint security to protect classified and unclassified information.
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By Lookout
Cybercriminals continue to evolve their tactics to compromise your organization's security defenses. The modern approach is to start by targeting users on their mobile devices to steal their credentials. Learn how these cybercriminals have evolved their tactics, and how Lookout prevents and protects at each stage of the kill chain.
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By Lookout
Leverage Lookout to block all traffic to specific domains that belong to countries such as China.
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By Lookout
For years, organizations have relied on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to provide remote access. By leveraging a ZTNA model with Lookout Secure Private Access, you can improve the user experience and increase your security posture.
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By Lookout
As your manufacturing organization transforms to Industry 4.0, mobile and cloud remain strategic for reinventing your operations. Not surprisingly, malicious actors have taken note of how reliant we all are on mobile devices. From their perspective, mobile phishing is often the cheapest way to compromise an individual or a manufacturing operation.
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By Lookout
The perimeter has disappeared. Legacy security technologies do not apply. Devices cannot be trusted. As employees continue to use a mix of managed and unmanaged devices, it sets up the need for a new security architecture: Zero Trust for mobile. Read this whitepaper to.
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By Lookout
The time has come for enterprise risk management to change. Mobile devices have become core to our personal and professional lives, yet most enterprises remain focused on traditional PC endpoints. Although many of the same elements of risk that affect PCs also apply to mobile endpoints, simply extending current PC security controls to your mobile fleet is ineffective. Enterprise risk management needs to evolve to address mobile risks, and security professionals must architect mobile-specific security.
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By Lookout
Consumer financial institutions are in the midst of a digital transformation that includes moving traditional face-to-face customer interactions to mobile devices. Forty-three percent of people who own a mobile device and have a bank account use mobile banking, according to a Federal Reserve study titled, "Consumers and Mobile Financial Services." Mobile banking creates unprecedented conveniences for customers, such as mobile check deposits, near-instant person-to-person transfers, and access to personal financial accounts in real time.
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Lookout is the leader in mobile security, protecting the device at the intersection of the personal you and the professional you. Our mission is to secure and empower our digital future in a privacy-focused world where mobile devices are essential to all we do for work and play.
We enable consumers and employees to protect their data, and to securely stay connected without violating their privacy and trust. Our platform uses artificial intelligence to analyze data from nearly 200 million devices and over 100 million apps to protect you from the full spectrum of mobile risk. As a result, Lookout delivers modern endpoint security with the most comprehensive protection from device, network, app and phishing threats without prying into your data.
Why Lookout for iOS, Android and Chrome OS:
- Lookout secures our digital future: We protect your smartphone, tablet and Chromebook because they are at the intersection of the personal you and the professional you. Our mission is to secure and empower our digital future in a privacy-focused world where these devices are essential to all we do for work and play.
- Protect the personal and professional you: The most common start of a cyberattack is a phishing link and mobile devices have enabled new ways to send them to you. Phishing risks no longer simply hide in email, but in messaging, social media, and even dating apps. Because we use these devices for both, protecting against phishing is critical for our personal and professional lives.
- An AI-powered security graph for mobile: We protect your data from known and unknown threats without violating your privacy and trust. In the Lookout Security Graph, we use artificial intelligence to analyze telemetry data from nearly 200 million devices and over 120 million apps. The AI of our Security Graph enables us to deliver platform modules that protect you with a lightweight app on your device.
- A platform to protect, detect and respond: Our Security Platform is built from the ground up to secure mobile devices. We protect mobile fleets of hundreds of thousands of endpoints and stop breaches by rapidly detecting and responding to incidents. From apps with malware to ransomware and phishing scams, you are protected without lifting a finger. When a threat or an attack occurs, we provide step-by-step instructions to investigate what is happening and how to fix it.
- A lightweight app for 360-degree security: With a lightweight app for your smartphone, tablet or Chromebook, Lookout protects you against the full spectrum of threats. The app stays connected with our platform in the cloud to deliver efficient protection on the device that cannot be subverted and optimizes for processor speed and battery life.
The world's first mobile EDR solution. Delivered on the only platform built for mobile from the ground up.