2014 THE NEXT MOBILE FRONTIER REPORT
The ’Next Mobile Frontier Report’ is a custom consumer study led by Ovum on behalf of Upstream. The survey covered 4,504 consumers, with nationally representative samples in Brazil, China, India,...
View Article2016 Mobile Commerce Market Research
The research was carried out by YouGov Plc. on behalf of Upstream, and was based on a survey of 5,215 consumers in Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Nigeria and South Africa. The survey sample was age and...
View Article2017 Emerging Markets Digital Services report
For this year’s report, Upstream commissioned Ovum to conduct research into consumer attitudes towards digital services and digital service providers, particularly mobile operators, in emerging...
View ArticleMobile Security in Emerging Markets (Infographic)
The increasing penetration of mobile and smartphones is enabling consumers in emerging markets to connect to the world and the internet. Yet, at the same time, consumers’ devices are increasingly...
View ArticleLow-end Android smartphones sold with pre-installed malicious software in...
Smartphone penetration and mobile internet connectivity are rapidly growing in emerging markets, empowering consumers and granting them access to knowledge. Across multiple countries and on a large...
View ArticleSecure-D uncovers pre-installed suspicious application com.tct.weather on...
THE ISSUE IN SUMMARY An unusually high number of transaction attempts encountered by Secure-D in Brazil and Malaysia coming from a series of Alcatel Android smartphone models Pixi 4 and A3 Max, led our...
View ArticleSECURE-D UNCOVERS VIDMATE ANDROID APP HIDES BACKGROUND ACTIVITY GENERATING...
SUMMARY Upstream’s security lab, Secure-D, has unveiled that popular video Android application VidMate, with over 500 million downloads, triggers suspicious background activity. A hidden component...
View ArticleSecure-D uncovers 4shared Android app triggers suspicious background activity...
Upstream’s security lab, Secure-D, has unveiled that 4shared, a popular file sharing and storage Android app hides suspicious background activity. 4shared has been delivering bogus ads to user devices...
View ArticleSecure-D uncovers non-human clicks and subscriptions from popular Android app...
Upstream’s security platform Secure-D has detected and blocked more than 70 million suspicious mobile transaction requests coming from the Android app Snaptube in just six months. Snaptube has been...
View ArticleSecure-D uncovers suspicious mobile transactions from Android Keyboard app...
Over a recent period, Upstream’s security platform Secure-D has blocked millions of suspicious mobile transaction requests coming from popular Android Emoji app ai.type. The app has been delivering...
View ArticleACCELERATING DIGITAL SALES WITH UPSTREAM
How 100,000 pre-paid users moved to post-paid plans in one go. In 2019, one of Brazil’s major mobile operator’s joined forces with Upstream to drive digital post-paid sales and capitalize on the...
View ArticleWELL-KNOWN MALWARE COMMITTING CLICK AD FRAUD ON LOW-END DEVICES IN EMERGING...
Triggered by other malware that was found on the phones, Secure-D researchers exposed how the Triada/xHelper duo facilitated mobile ad fraud. Upstream’s security platform, Secure-D, has blocked...
View ArticleShifting to Digital Sales Channels for MNOs – White Paper
Physical No More. The entire world has turned digital; working, learning, having fun, buying is all done online, more than ever before. Lockdown has forced the closure of physical stores and some call...
View Article$27 million Premium Subscription Fraud and Invisible Ads within VivaVideo...
Upstream’s mobile security platform Secure-D identified that a popular Android app was responsible for over 20 million fraudulent transaction attempts that could have resulted in $ 27 million in fake...
View ArticleThe Road to Digital
Going digital beyond the pandemic. This report provides a snapshot of how telco operators are walking the road to digital so far and how they are adapting for 2021 and beyond to create value, enhance...
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