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...
Cybercriminals Attack Users With 400,000 New Malicious Files Daily – That Is 5% More Than In 2021
In 2022, Kaspersky’s detection systems discovered on average 400,000 malicious files distributed every day, indicating a 5% growth compared to 2021. The number of certain types of threats also escalated: for example, Kaspersky experts discovered the 181% increase in the proportion of ransomware detected daily. These and other findings are part of Kaspersky Security Bulletin (KSB) – an annual series of predictions and analytical...
72% of Malaysia Organizations Were Breached At Least Once in the Past Year
Trend Micro Incorporated, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced that 72% of organizations in Malaysia have had customer records compromised multiple times over the past 12 months as they struggle to profile and defend an expanding attack surface. The findings come from Trend Micro’s semi-annual Cyber Risk Index (CRI) report, compiled by the Ponemon Institute from interviews with over 4,100 organizations across North...
Fight Against Cyberbullying: How Parents And Kids Can Protect Themselves
November is a month when cyberbullying is widely discussed around the world with events including the International Day Against Violence and Bullying to the week-long dedicated fight against this problem in the U.K., and countries uniting together to resist cyberbullying. Kaspersky experts have collected a range of tips for parents and children on what to do if you’re bullied, and how to protect yourself. What kids can do to protect...
Sophos 2023 Threat Report: Criminals “Follow the Money” by Commercializing Cybercrime, Launching More “Innovative” Ransomware Attacks and Doubling Down on Credential Theft
Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering next-generation cybersecurity as a service, published its 2023 Threat Report. The report details how the cyberthreat landscape has reached a new level of commercialization and convenience for would-be attackers, with nearly all barriers to entry for committing cybercrime removed through the expansion of cybercrime-as-a-service. The report also addresses how ransomware remains one of...
The Next Wannacry And Drone Hacking: Advanced Persistent Threats In 2023
Kaspersky researchers presented their vision of the future for advanced persistent threats (APTs), defining the changes in threat landscape that will emerge in 2023. Attacks on satellite technologies, mail servers, the rise of destructive attacks and leaks, drone hacking and the next big cyber epidemic are among some of the predictions for the next year. The political turmoil of 2022 brought about a shift that will echo in...
Sophos 2022 Threat Report: Gravitational Force of Ransomware Black Hole Pulls in Other Cyberthreats to Create One Massive, Interconnected Ransomware Delivery System
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, published the Sophos 2022 Threat Report, which shows how the gravitational force of ransomware’s black hole is pulling in other cyberthreats to form one massive, interconnected ransomware delivery system – with significant implications for IT security. The report, written by SophosLabs security researchers, Sophos Managed Threat Response threat hunters and rapid responders, and...
Quality Over Quantity: Mobile Malware Continues Downward Trend in Malaysia
Kaspersky, the global cybersecurity company, released its latest data about mobile malware’s consistent decrease in number in Malaysia. During the period of January till June this year, the mobile malware was detected 14,359 times versus 45,267 in the same period 2021, dropping by 63.55% (excluding adware and riskware). Malaysia has seen a downward trend of mobile malware attacks gradually. In 2019, 145,044 attacks on Malaysian users,...
Malaysia Remains Top Country in SEA when It Comes to Financial Phishing
Kaspersky detected in Malaysia a total of 195,032 payment system-related phishing activities in the first two quarters of 2022, with 108,755 in quarter one and 86,277 in quarter two. Findings of the global cybersecurity company aligns with the local trends in the country. The Inspector-General of Police earlier disclosed that a total of 48,850 online frauds were reported from 2020 till May this year, or 68% of the total 71,833...
Manufacturing Reports the Highest Average Ransomware Payment Across All Sectors, Sophos Survey Finds
Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today published a new sectoral survey report, “The State of Ransomware in Manufacturing and Production,” which found that the sector had the highest average ransom payment across all sectors—$2,036,189 versus $812,360, respectively. In addition, 66% of manufacturing and production organizations surveyed reported an increase in the complexity of cyber...
Kaspersky Calls For Building ICT Supply Chain Cyber Resiliency In Malaysia To Boost Its Growing Digital Economy
Against the backdrop of constantly evolving cyber threats, Malaysia needs to take a more active stance in prioritizing cybersecurity, Kaspersky’s findings suggest. A critical move towards achieving cyber-resiliency would potentially support the growth of local businesses, foster current digital opportunities, and mitigate dangerous risks to the country’s economy. Cyberattacks on information and communications technology (ICT)...
Sophos’ Industry-Leading Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Service Launches Compatibility with Third-Party Cybersecurity Technologies
Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today launched new third-party security technology compatibilities with Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) to better detect and remediate attacks with speed and precision across diverse customer and operating environments. The industry-leading service with more than 12,000 customers now integrates telemetry from third-party endpoint, firewall,...
