Define “attack”. There’s certainly more crapware in the Android store, not to mention sideloading.
If they had stated iOS “users” were more prone to attack, that may more accurately represent the intent of the article
We’ll never know whether this writer choose this headline, but probably not because it’s usually left to the copy editor.
This article reads a bit weird. The report itself is linked: https://www.lookout.com/threat-intelligence/report/q3-2024-mobile-landscape-threat-report-copy
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.
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
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.