Global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky found that the Philippines logged the highest number of banking Trojan attacks in the Asia Pacific (APAC) at 22.26%. This was discovered on the heels of widespread adoption […]
Puppet, a company that provides infrastructure automation, added a malware scanner feature for newly published modules on the Forge, Puppet’s module marketplace, to combat security risks and increase the security profile of […]
Photo by cottonbro from Pexels Software security firm Check Point Software (Check Point) advises users of dating apps about the cyber risks that come with its use. Providing information online — to […]
By Chris Connell, Managing Director for Asia Pacific at Kaspersky Imagine this: your company has a precious treasure to protect, the defenses with the latest technology were set up. However, the guards […]
The increase in ransomware attacks during the first half of 2021 rose to ten times (10.7 times to be exact) higher than levels set one year ago. Fortiguard Labs, the threat intelligence […]
Gootloader, a malware delivery platform, has been poisoning websites with malicious content, cybersecurity solutions firm Sophos discovered. The malware also messes up with the websites’ search engine optimization (SEO) “to ensure that […]
Global cybersecurity company Kaspersky has detected and blocked 382,578 mobile attacks against users in SEA during the first half of 2021. This is a 14% increase compared with the same period last […]
The frequency of ransomware attacks has increased dramatically over the past year, with most of these costly attacks targeting businesses, according to a new study from Barracuda, a provider of cloud-enabled security […]
According to Accenture’s Cyber Incident Response Update, cyber intrusion activity jumped 125% in the first half of 2021 compared with the same period last year. The report saw that web shell activity […]
The latest study from ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management division of Zoho Corp., revealed a dismal rate of implementing Zero Trust strategies among firms. This, even if 56% of organizations worldwide have […]
According to the latest report of security firm Sophos, cybercriminals have been using the Discord Content Management Network to spread malware. Sophos discovered how cybercriminals have been milking the Discord URLs which […]
By Genie Sugene Gan, Head of Public Affairs & Government Relations for Asia Pacific at Kaspersky The recent cyberattack incidents involving the largest pipeline system for refined oil products and one of […]
Cybersecurity solutions firm Sophos has unmasked new stripped-down ransomware called Epsilon Red that offloads most of its functionality to a series of PowerShell scripts. The ransomware was found in an unpatched server […]
While there is still no clear reason why the Asia Pacific (APAC) region is highly targeted with ransomware in 2020, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky advises organizations to bolster their cyberdefenses and In December, […]
Mastering obfuscation and widespread use of packers enabled 29% of malware to evade detection and classified as “previously unknown,” according to the findings of HP Inc. (HP) Quarterly Threat Insights Report, which […]
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 of working […]
From 2019 to 2020, the number of global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky users encountering targeted ransomware — malware used to extort money from high-profile targets, such as corporations, government agencies, and municipal organizations […]
With its findings that the surge in cybercriminals using Transport Layer Security (TLS), security solutions firm Sophos introduced its new XGS Series firewall appliances, which promises to deliver advanced protection against cyberattacks. […]
Global cybersecurity company Kaspersky reported a significant decrease in the number of ransomware attempts it has detected and foiled among its small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) users in the Southeast Asian (SEA) […]
Kaspersky experts have found malicious code in version 3.17.18 for the official client of the APKPure app store. To date, products belonging to 9,380 Kaspersky users have detected and blocked the threat. […]
In June 2020, Kaspersky researchers uncovered an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. The final payload is a remote administration tool that provides full control […]
The pandemic’s work-from-home reality resulted in an unprecedented change for organizations as they fought to defend exponentially greater attack surfaces from cyber criminals armed with powerful cloud-based tools, cloud storage and endless […]
Cloud security firm Trend Micro revealed that it blocked 16.7 million high-risk email threats that slipped past webmail providers’ native filters. This amounts to an increase of nearly a third of 2019 […]
Kaspersky researchers have identified a new, previously unknown, campaign from Lazarus, a highly prolific advanced threat actor active since at least 2009 that has been linked to a number of multifaceted campaigns. […]
As organizations shifted to cloud as their response to the crippling effects of the pandemic, cybercriminals amplified their attacks on the platform. This is one of the findings in the latest 2021 […]
The Philippines slipped two notches down from its previous ranking in the latest top 10 global list of countries with the most web-borne threats based on a report from cybersecurity company Kaspersky. […]
Researchers from Kaspersky have spotted a significant growth of the malware used by SilentFade, the gang responsible for $4 million fraud on Facebook in 2019. On January 2021, experts from the global […]
On Dec. 13, 2020, FireEye, Microsoft, and SolarWinds announced the discovery of a large, sophisticated supply chain attack that deployed a new, previously unknown malware “Sunburst” used against SolarWinds’ Orion IT customers. […]
The sudden shift in telecommuting caught many organizations by surprise — and unprepared. This opened up many vulnerabilities in cybersecurity that many cybercriminals exploited and continue to attack. Technology company HP sees […]
In 2020, an average of 360,000 new malicious files was detected by Kaspersky per day, an increase of 5.2% when compared to the previous year. This was influenced mostly by a large […]
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