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 […]
Over 60 entities in the Asia Pacific region were targeted by ransomware group in 2020, according to Kaspersky during its annual Cyber Security Weekend held online recently. Countries Australia and India logged […]
The latest report of Malwarebytes, a provider of advanced endpoint protection and remediation solutions, uncovered that cybersecurity preparation made a significant difference in a school’s ability to weather a cybersecurity event. The […]
When monitoring a Windows campaign from Guildma banking malware, Kaspersky researchers found URLs distributing not only a malicious .ZIP file for Windows, but also a malicious file that appeared to be a […]
Kaspersky researchers uncovered a series of highly targeted attacks against industrial holdings dating back to 2018 — far rarer in the world of advanced persistent threat (APT) actors than campaigns against diplomats […]
Kaspersky’s researchers uncovered an advanced persistent threat (APT) espionage campaign that uses a very rarely seen type of malware known as a firmware bootkit. The new malware was detected by Kaspersky’s UEFI […]
The latest research of BlackBerry Limited discovered how Bahamut, an elusive and persistent group of threat actors, has been launching attacks against government officials and industry titans, while also unveiling the group’s […]
In the middle of the pandemic, it was revealed in a recent Kaspersky survey that when it comes to online security, Filipinos are now most concerned about their online activities such as […]
Kaspersky researchers have uncovered a series of attacks that use an advanced malware framework, called MATA, to target Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems. In use since spring 2018, the framework is […]
The trend of increase in ransomware attacks continues as the SonicWall Capture Labs (SonicWall) threat research team finds that despite the global decline of malware volume this year, ransomware attacks increased a […]
Cybersecurity solutions firm Sophos discovered that Emotet, the ubiquitous botnet that arrives in the guise of any of a thousand different bogus email messages, never really went away when it suddenly stopped […]
Anonymized statistics from free requests to the Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal have revealed that almost three quarters (72%) of the analyzed malicious files fell into three categories: Trojans, backdoors, and droppers. The […]
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