Mastercard Introduces AI-Powered Cyber Shield to Strengthen Customer Security
Mastercard has announced a new AI-powered cybersecurity solution called “AI Cyber Shield,” which will help protect customers from potential cyber threats. The technology analyzes vast amounts of data in real-time to identify patterns and signals of potential attacks, such as malware and phishing attempts. It then uses this information to create a protective shield around the user’s device and prevent the attack from...
Financial Phishing: A Growing Threat to Businesses in Southeast Asia
Phishing is a prevalent form of cybercrime that works by using carefully crafted emails or notifications to trick users into giving up their payment or personal details or downloading malicious programs. Financial phishing is a type of phishing that targets payment systems and e-shops, and it is a growing problem in Southeast Asia. In 2022, Kaspersky blocked a total of 822,536 financial phishing attempts targeted at companies in the...
Kaspersky Report: Cybercriminals Launch More Than 7 Million Attacks on Children Through Popular Games in 2022
Cybercriminals targeted young players in online gaming with more than 7 million attacks in 2022, according to a report by Kaspersky. The report, titled “The Dark Side of Kids’ Virtual Gaming Worlds”, showed that focused attacks on this age group increased by 57% compared to 2021, with phishing pages used to target young players mostly mimicking global game titles including Roblox, Minecraft, Fortnite, and Apex...
ChatGPT for Cybersecurity Defenses
Sophos, a leading cybersecurity service provider, has released new research showcasing the potential of GPT-3, the language model that powers ChatGPT, as a co-pilot to help defeat cyber attackers. The report titled “GPT for You and Me: Applying AI Language Processing to Cyber Defenses” describes the projects developed by Sophos X-Ops using GPT-3’s large language models. These projects simplify the search for...
Malicious Mailings Targeting Malaysia Put the Country in the Top Ten of 2022
Kaspersky, a leading cybersecurity company, has reported a significant increase in the number of malicious email attachments in 2022 compared to the previous year. According to their data, 18 million more attachments were detected, with the highest number of triggers occurring in March, May, and June. In Malaysia, the percentage of such threats rose from 2.62% in 2021 to nearly 3% in 2022. The email attachments that Malaysian users...
Shifting Trends: Kaspersky’s Data Shows Web Threats Overtaking Local Threats In The Past Two Years In Malaysia
Malaysia Computer Emergency Response Team (“MyCERT”) observed an increase in various cybersecurity attacks capitalizing the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on phishing emails, websites, scam domains, malware and vulnerable sectors and infrastructures in the health sector. The data gathered by Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), that automatically analyzes cybersecurity-related data streams from millions of voluntary participants around the...
SMEs And Enterprise in APAC Plan To Increase IT Security Budgets Equally Up to 17% in The Next Three Years
A PWC study states the heightened interest of business in cybersecurity caused by the increased use of digital technologies and ever-evolving threat landscape has already resulted in improvements in IT security. To explore how much businesses currently spend on this crucial field and what their plans for further investments are, Kaspersky conducted 3,230 interviews across 26 countries from businesses with more than 50 employees. Out...
Top Five Online Dating Threats Cybercriminals Are Using This Valentine’s Season
Love is in the air this Valentine’s Day, and for many, it inspires to look for a special someone. However, as online dating popularity continues to grow, so do the threats from cybercriminals looking to exploit vulnerable individuals. Kaspersky is shining a light on these dangers and sharing its top five online dating threats to watch out for this Valentine’s Day. Phishing for dating resources Imagine finding the perfect match online,...
SMBs And Enterprise In APAC Plan To Increase IT Security Budgets Equally Up To 17% In The Next Three Years
The increased complexity of IT infrastructure, a need to improve the level of specialist security expertise and geopolitical or economic uncertainty are the main factors driving cyber security spending for companies of all sizes, according to latest edition of Kaspersky’s annual IT Security Economics report. A PWC study states the heightened interest of business in cybersecurity caused by the increased use of digital technologies and...
Roaming Mantis Uses DNS Changers To Target Users Via Compromised Public Routers
On January 19, Kaspersky researchers reported on a new domain name system (DNS) changer functionality used in the Roaming Mantis campaign. Now cybercriminals can use compromised Wi-Fi routers in cafes, airports hotels and other public places to potentially infect more Android smartphones with the Wroba.o malware. At the moment, the new technique targets users in South Korea, but it can be soon implemented in other countries as well....
Malaysia’s National Cyber Security Agency (NACSA) Examines Kaspersky’s Transparency Center in Switzerland
With the objective of securing and further strengthening Malaysia’s resilience in facing cyberattacks through mutual collaboration, the National Cyber Security Agency (NACSA) visited Kaspersky’s Transparency Center in Zurich, Switzerland, recently. It was the first time a high-ranking officer from Malaysia has visited the company’s first-ever Transparency Center. Built to enable trusted partners and government stakeholders to review...
Miscommunications In IT Security Lead To Cybersecurity Incidents In 62% Of Companies
The recent Forrester analytics survey says that companies spend an average of 37 days and of $2.4 million to detect and recover from a cybersecurity breach. To determine how much mutual understanding between executives and information security teams affects company’s cyber resilience, Kaspersky conducted a global survey of more than 1,300 business leaders. According to the results of the study, 98% of non-IT respondents experienced...
Sophos Unravels 20 Fake Criminal Marketplaces Designed to Scam Scammers
Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, has revealed details of how it tracked down the likely culprit behind more than 20 fake criminal marketplaces designed to con cyberscammers in part three of Sophos’ series, “The Scammers Who Scam Scammers on Cybercrime Forums.” After stumbling upon a surface website mimicking the real criminal underground site Genesis, Sophos researchers further uncovered...
Cyber Protection For Your Smartphone, Now Available At 7-Eleven Malaysia
7-Eleven Malaysia, with more than 2,400 stores nationwide that serves over 900,000 customers daily, adds the best cybersecurity protection product onto its shelf of offerings. With the aim to make security solutions easier to purchase for the highly-connected Malaysians, the chain now sells Kaspersky Total Security in its local stores. Kaspersky Total Security provides triple-layer protection system that works 24/7 to secure devices...
Kaspersky Announces Winners Of The KIPS Championship 2022 For Students
Kaspersky has announced the winners of its annual Kaspersky Interactive Protection Simulation (KIPS) competition for students. Following the final event, held online on December 1, Team SPAM from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in Russia, was named the winner. Teams The Organizer from Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management & Technology in Malaysia, and Try H4rd from Perm...
Dark Side Of FIFA World Cup – How To Avoid Scammers And Enjoy The Final Game
On December 18, the final of the World Cup between the teams of Argentina and France will take place. This is a huge event that will be followed by millions of fans around the world. According to FIFA president Gianni Infantino, this championship is going to be the most-watched tournament in history. Considering the amount of attention surrounding this event, scammers will try to use it to steal valuable personal data or money....
Sophos Thwarts Ransomware Attack by Rare, Malicious Driver Signed with a Valid Digital Certificate
Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today revealed it has found malicious code in multiple drivers signed by legitimate digital certificates. Its latest report, “Signed Driver Malware Moves up the Software Trust Chain,” details the investigation which began with an attempted ransomware attack in which the attackers used a malicious driver signed with a legitimate Windows Hardware...
Hybrid Workers and Managed Service Providers Face Cyber-Threat Onslaught in 2023
Trend Micro Incorporated has released Future/Tense: Trend Micro Security Predictions for 2023. The report warns that threat actors will ramp up attacks targeting security blind spots in the home office, software supply chain, and cloud in the coming year. “Since end last year, organizations in Malaysia have either returned to the office, permanently switching to remote arrangements, or opting for a combination of both. However, these...
Law, Order and Mayhem: Cybercriminals Scam Each Other Out of Millions of Dollars and Take Their Complaints About the Scams to Arbitration Rooms, Sophos Reports
Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today announced in the first of a four-part series, “The Scammers Who Scam Scammers on Cybercrime Forums,” that cybercriminals are scamming each other out of millions of dollars and use arbitration to settle disputes about the scams. The report also reveals how attackers use classic techniques—some decades old, such as typosquatting, phishing, backdoored...
Sophos Launches Industry-First Managed Detection And Response (MDR) Service
From An Endpoint Security Provider That Integrates Vendor Agnostic Telemetry
Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, announced the general availability of Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) with new industry-first threat detection and response capabilities. Sophos is the first endpoint security provider to integrate vendor agnostic telemetry from third-party security technologies into its MDR offering, providing unprecedented visibility and detection across...
