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There has been a significant shift to mobile fraud over the last four years, with mobile traffic representing 75% of all traffic, according to the latest cybercrime report from LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

India, the world's second biggest smartphone market, has seen traffic grow more than 60 times over the past five years and mobile users now consume about 13.5GB of data each month, a study of the subcontinent's mobile market by Finnish telecommunications equipment vendor Nokia has found.

Mobile traffic will make up nearly 20% of global IP traffic by the end of 2022 and reach 930 exabytes each year, the networking giant Cisco says in its Mobile Visual Networking Index.

The AFL grand final between Richmond and Adelaide last Saturday drew a sell-out crowd of more than 100,000 at the iconic MCG and generated a massive 3.1 terabytes of traffic on the Telstra mobile network.

Fans at Saturday’s AFL grand final generated a massive 2.3 terabytes of traffic on the Telstra mobile network using their mobile phones and other devices to stream video, browse the Internet, upload photos to social media and receive and make telephone calls.

Is the mobile malware problem overblown, are malware infections overhyped?