The Philippines is among the top 5 countries in Southeast Asia (SEA) with the highest number of financial phishing incidents, based on Kaspersky data. The cybersecurity company saw 52,914 attacks against businesses […]
Data from cybersecurity solutions company Kaspersky show that the Philippines is the second most attacked country in the world, the first being Mongolia, from January to December last year. The latest Kaspersky […]
CryptoRom is already a scam in itself that victimizes dating app users with financial fraud schemes. Cybersecurity solutions provider Sophos has found that the first fake CryptoRom apps were able to elude […]
According to the latest report from cybersecurity firm Sophos, the commercialization of cybercrime drove an uptick in nearly all types of cyberattacks in 2022. The malware economy is booming which means no […]
Researchers of cybersecurity solutions company Kaspersky reported that cybercriminals are using a new domain name system (DNS) changer to spread malware through compromised public Wi-Fi routers. Used in the Roaming Mantis campaign, […]
From typosquatting to phishing to backdoored malware to fake marketplaces. This is how cybercriminals try to scam each other, according to a report from cybersecurity solutions company Sophos. Cybercriminals are scamming each […]
Kaspersky experts predict a shift in advanced persistent threat (APT) activity against industrial organizations and OT systems in new industries and locations. Attack surface will also increase due to digitization in a […]
As companies recognize the benefits of hybrid work, the new setup also increases security vulnerability mainly due to the use of unregistered devices and unsecured networks, according to the study by software […]
Cybersecurity solutions company Kaspersky found that there are at least five types of malicious software (malware), in the form of a Trojan, targeting devices of employees in Southeast Asia (SEA), including the […]
The latest study from Kroll, an independent provider of global risk and financial advisory solutions, shows that 75% of organizations in the Philippines have experienced a cyber incident, which makes it the […]
Cybersecurity solutions provider Kaspersky that cybercriminals have launched more than 11 million web attacks against small businesses (SMB) in Southeast Asia (SEA) during the first half of 2022. Most of the incidents […]
According to Kaspersky’s Digital Footprint Intelligence (DFI) report for APAC, database leaks in the region account for 95% of the total amount of advertisements. Singapore’s and Australia’s data leaks markets are by […]
Active adversaries are increasingly exploiting stolen session cookies to bypass Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and gain access to corporate resources. This is one of the key findings in the Sophos X-Ops report, “Cookie […]
Developed by Kaspersky’s own specialists, the course aims to help businesses enhance or even build a security operations center (SOC) from scratch, and improve SOC’s and security team skills in threat hunting, […]
In the first half of 2022, Kaspersky researchers detected an increase in the activity of cybercriminals targeting online gamers. The number of users attacked by malicious software, which gathers sensitive data and […]
The latest data from cybersecurity solutions firm Kaspersky showed a drop in mobile malware attacks against users in the Philippines. From 110,128 in 2019, the number of attempted malware attacks decreased to […]
The latest threat report from cybersecurity solutions company ESET found that malware (malicious software) Industroyer has been revived and is being used to target high-voltage electrical substations in connection with the ongoing […]
Based on the latest research titled “The State of Stalkerware in 2021,” more than 32,000 Kaspersky mobile users globally have been affected by stalkerware. The dangers of stalkerware brought industry stakeholders in […]
During the second half of 2021, almost 40% of all industrial control systems’ (ICS) computers were attacked by malicious software at least once. Even though the overall number of attacks has seen […]
The number of malware attacks may have dropped in 2021 but they have become more sophisticated and evasive. This is one of the findings of cybersecurity solutions firm Kaspersky in its 2021 […]
In its latest research, cybersecurity solutions firm Sophos found that the Squirrelwaffle malware loader was used together with the ProxyLogon and ProxyShell exploits to target an unpatched Microsoft Exchange server. This strategy […]
A trend that is currently building for the future on the side of the bad actor is that ransomware gangs are morphing into “everything gangs.” Instead of just doing ransomware and data […]
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 […]
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