Catch Me If You Can: Rooting Tools vs The Mobile Security Industry

Rooted devices are more than 3.5 times more likely to be targeted by mobile malware.

System compromise incidents are 250 times higher on rooted devices compared to stock devices.

Events where Security-Enhanced Linux is disabled increase more than 90 times on rooted devices compared to stock devices.

Filesystem compromise events increase by a factor of 3000 on rooted devices compared to stock devices.

The exposure factor of rooted devices versus stock devices varies from 3x to ~3000x, which suggests that rooted devices are potentially much more vulnerable to threats than stock devices.

Compromised app detections surge by a factor of 12 on rooted devices compared to stock devices.