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.
Top topics exploited by cybercriminals include COVID-19, non-existent video conferences, and “new corporate services”
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,
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.
Top 10 global list
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.
While vulnerabilities are inevitable in any software, regular patching and updates can minimize the risk of exploitation. That’s why users are always advised to install the latest software versions as soon as they are available, even if these updates can sometimes be difficult or a time-consuming task for organizations. However, a fresh study from Kaspersky revealed more than half (54%) of organizations in Southeast Asia (SEA) have work to do regarding this crucial task.
Kaspersky research shows timely updates can cut business data breach’s costs
The recent Kaspersky report, ‘How businesses can minimize the cost of a data breach’ showed that 38% of SMBs (small and medium businesses) and a whopping 48% of enterprises from SEA are still working with unpatched operation systems. In addition, 33% of SMBs and 43% of enterprises from the region are still guilty of using out-of-date software.
Kaspersky reveals two APT incidents related to vaccine research ANI | Updated: Dec 30, 2020 17:43 IST
New Delhi [India] December 30 (ANI/Bloomingdale): In the autumn of 2020, Kaspersky researchers identified two APT incidents that targeted entities related to COVID-19 research -a Ministry of Health body and a pharmaceutical company. Kaspersky experts assessed with high confidence that the activities can be attributed to the infamous Lazarus group.
As the pandemic and restrictive measures across the world continue, many parties involved are trying to speed up vaccine development by any means available. While most of the work is well-intentioned, there is another side to this coin as some threat actors are trying to capitalize on this for their own gain. As they continue to track the Lazarus group s ongoing campaign targeting various industries, Kaspersky experts have discovered that the actor went after COVID-19-related entities just a couple
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