Enterprise tech news and intelligence in the Philippines
Eighty-four percent (84%) of cybersecurity professionals are starting to rely more on artificial intelligence (AI) to support their work, but many organizations still lack the skills needed to use the…
Global internet traffic grew 19% year over year in 2025, alongside sharper growth in artificial intelligence (AI) tools and an increase in cyberattacks, according to Cloudflare’s sixth annual Year in…
According to cybersecurity solutions company Fortinet, the increased use of artificial intelligence (AI) is changing how cybercriminals operate, making attacks more frequent and harder to stop. As businesses rely more…
Hybrid work may be convenient in some aspects but the latest report from Fortinet, a cybersecurity company, shows that unmanaged devices pose security risks. As per the survey conducted by…
While there is a heightened awareness of cybersecurity, only 27% of companies in the Philippines are ready to defend their networks in the event of a cyber attack, according to…
Cyber attackers have been staying way too long on a website or systems under attack, sometimes undetected. According to Sophos’ latest report “Active Adversary Playbook 2022,” there is a 36%…
With the COVID-19 pandemic still widespread in many countries in 2021, ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations also increased by 94%. This is one of the findings of Sophos’ report titled…
The latest “State of Ransomware 2022” report by cybersecurity firm Sophos shows that 66% of organizations surveyed were hit with ransomware in 2021, up from 37% in 2020. The average…
The Agence France Presse (AFP) reported that members of the ransomware group responsible for the Kaseya attack last year were arrested by Russian officials, “as per the request” of the…
The latest report from technology company Cisco revealed that 57% SMBs in the Philippines suffered a cyber attack in the last 12 months and as a result of these incidents,…
The latest report of cybersecurity firm Sophos reveals that as companies shifted to online trading, they became the top target of ransomware attacks. The “State of Ransomware in Retail” saw…
The report from cybersecurity firm Sophos saw 42% ((up from 30% the previous year) of Philippine organizations hit by ransomware last year at the height of the pandemic and emergence…
At the end of last year, technology company HP predicted that because remote work setup has weakened organizational security, cyberattacks would be more targeted and methods would vary. As the…
If the reaction to the increase in cyber threats, in terms of budget, is any indication, some companies in the Philippines could not be bothered. The latest survey of security…
The Rapid Response Team of cybersecurity firm Sophos discovers how neglecting “ghost” account credentials could lead to cyberattacks. One of the recent incidents involved the Nefilim or Nemty ransomware, which…
Nexusguard, a cloud-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) security solutions provider has recently released its “Q3 2020 Threat Report,” detailing an increase in DDoS attacks by 287% in the third…
Global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky sees that the growth in digitalization among organizations will further open up more vulnerabilities for cybercriminals to exploit. As more companies across industries realize the need…
From the onset, cybercriminals exploited the COVID-19 pandemic heavily and attacked the most vulnerable network which is the work-from-home environment. That was the story of 2020. Going to 2021, cybersecurity…
Cybersecurity firm Sophos flags how ransomware and fast-changing attacker behaviors will shape the threat landscape and IT security in 2021, according to its “Sophos 2021 Threat Report,” written by SophosLabs…
Almost a third (30%) of cyberattacks investigated by the Kaspersky Global Emergency Response team in 2019 involved legitimate remote management and administration tools. As a result, attackers can remain undetected…
Security experts have been talking about mobile devices as one of the most vulnerable to attacks and may be the gateway for crybecriminals in launching more serious attacks. However, in…
A number of US-based newspapers reported suspected cyberattacks that affected their printing and distribution. In a report by CNN, it said that according to the Los Angeles Times the cyberattack…
(Image from Pixabay) Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is among the 1.5 million patients of SingHealth, whose non-medical data were compromised in a cyber attack that was detected on…
Image by Gerd Altmann (Pixabay) Security firm TrendMicro reveals that after a series of research, it found network attacks that target a vulnerability in the Drupal content management framework. The…
Ransomware attacks are no longer limited to Windows systems but are possible with MacOs and other platforms. This is the most significant findings in “SophosLabs 2018 Malware Forecast” released recently.…