After having tracked stalkerware for years, Malwarebytes can reveal that in 2021, detections for apps that can non-consensually monitor another person’s activity reached their highest peak ever, but that, amidst the record-setting numbers, the volume of detections actually began to significantly decrease in the second half of the year. This decrease in stalkerware-type activity never reached the lower levels in 2019 that Malwarebytes recorded before the start of the global coronavirus pandemic, which was recognized in 2020 and which spread quickly across the globe beginning in the months of February, March, and April.

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