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14/03/2021 11:22 GMT+7
Vietnam saw significant improvements in its cybersecurity landscape in 2020 despite the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Vietnam ranked 19th worldwide in 2020 in the number of cyber threats, a decrease of 14.2% to 64.35 million, according to Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), a global cybersecurity firm.
In a report, KSN said 39.1% of Vietnamese online users were attacked last year as the country fell two places in the list of the most attacked countries and territories to 19th place.
The Vietnam Security Summit 2020 held on November 10.
Kaspersky today unmasks the continued phishing campaigns against small and medium businesses (SMBs) in Southeast Asia (SEA). Despite this segment bearing the brunt of the still on-going pandemic, Kaspersky’s Anti-Phishing Technology has blocked a total of 2,890,825 attempts aimed at SMBs in the region last year, a 20% increase compared with 2,402,569 attempts to visit fraudulent urls detected in 2019.
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Phishing is a form of cybercrime based on social engineering techniques that involves stealing confidential data from a person’s computer and subsequently using the data for other purposes – from stealing the target’s money to reselling their data. Phishing messages usually take the form of fake notifications from banks, providers, e-pay systems and other organizations, phishing also can take the form of an almost 100% perfect replica of a trusted website,
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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.
In the 2020 Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) report, it showed that Kaspersky solutions installed in computers of Filipino users detected 44,420,695 different internet-borne threats last year. The report also revealed that more than four-in-10 (42.2%) of online users in the country were almost infected with web threats in 2020, putting the country at 6th place globally.
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The number of web threats in the country is about 37.19% more in 2020 compared to 27,899,906 web threats (44.4%) detected in 2019, placing the country 4th overall in that year.