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BusinessWorld February 25, 2021 | 12:04 am FILIPINO internet users who encountered online credit card skimmers increased by 20% in 2020, internet security firm Kaspersky said. In an e-mailed statement on Monday, web skimmers, sometimes referred to as sniffers, where scripts are embedded by attackers in online stores and used to steal users’ credit card data from websites, caused the increase in the total number of web threats in the Philippines last year. “The number of web threats in the country is about 37.19% more in 2020 compared to 27,899,906 web threats (44.4%) detec...

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 nu...