Sophos Accelerates Growth of MSP Connect
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, today announced accelerated worldwide growth of MSP Connect, Sophos’ award-winning program to help managed service providers (MSPs) increase customer management efficiencies, unlock new business opportunities and boost revenue. The growth is fueled by the increased demand for Sophos’ next-generation cybersecurity solutions and services that protect against ransomware and other...
Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud Ensures 100% Protection From Ransomware, Confirmed AV-TEST
For the last several years, ransomware has grown into an industry with plenty of malware families, dedicated criminal gangs and attacks-as-a-service. In Q2 2021 alone, 3,905 new ransomware modifications appeared in the wild, while 97,451 users were attacked globally, about 6.000 more than in the previous quarter, according to Kaspersky’s research. When getting to a system, such an attack spreads quickly from one machine to another,...
Kaspersky Releases Its First Transparency Report
Thanks to the growing importance of technology in modern life, demand for greater transparency of the software we use is also growing, including security solutions. To address this demand, Kaspersky has issued its first transparency report, Law enforcement and government requests report, to help its users understand how the company responds to such requests and its approach to users’ data security and privacy. As the number of...
Asia Pacific And Japan Financial Services Organizations In Hit By Ransomware Face More Than US$2.62 Million In Recovery Costs, Sophos Survey Shows
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, today announced findings from its survey report, “The State of Ransomware in Financial Services 2021,” that show how mid-sized financial services organizations in Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) spent more US$2.62 million on average recovering from a ransomware attack. This figure exceeds the global cross-sector average of US$1.85 million even though the results also show the...
Conti Ransomware and ProxyShell: The Perfect Storm for Cyberattack
According to Sophos threat researchers, Conti ransomware is incredibly active right now, due to the dissolution of DarkSide, REvil and Avaddon, three groups that operated under a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) business model. Affiliates of these now shuttered gangs are looking for a new operator, which Sophos suspects is Conti, due to the recent high levels of activity the company’s threat researchers have seen. Another “high alert”...
5 Practical Ways To Keep Your Finances Safer Online
Global cybersecurity company Kaspersky today reveals its Q2 2021 mobile threat report for Southeast Asia (SEA) where it has monitored a 60% uptick in the number of attacks using malicious mobile bankers detected and blocked in the region. Mobile banking Trojans – or bankers – are used by cybercriminals to steal funds directly from mobile bank accounts. These malicious programs typically look like legitimate financial apps, but when a...
QakBot Banking Malware Attack Grew 65% in 2021
The number of users attacked with QakBot – a powerful banking Trojan, in the first seven months of 2021 grew by 65% in comparison to the same period in 2020 and reached 17,316 users worldwide, demonstrating that this threat is increasingly affecting internet users. This rise has drawn the attention of Kaspersky rvesearchers to the subject, leading them to review updates to the latest version of this Trojan. Banking Trojans, when they...
Which Platforms/Services Do Internet Users Have Most Privacy Concerns About?
Kaspersky analyzed anonymized data, voluntarily provided by Privacy Checker, a website that contains helpful advice on privacy settings for various internet services and platforms. The results reflect which services and platforms’ internet users have the most privacy concerns about. The data show, most customers are worried about the security of popular mobile operating systems (21.2%) and Google’s privacy level (18.3%). Internet...
Kanye West’s Donda – The Most Anticipated Release Of The Year Not Only For Music Fans But Scammers
Over the past few months, the world has been following the progress of Kanye West’s latest album – Donda. Initially, Kanye West rented an entire stadium and locked himself inside to finish the album. He then gave a real show presentation with various special effects and levitation under the roof of the stadium. Now the preliminary release date is August 26th. With all the hype surrounding the upcoming album, Kaspersky decided to...
73% of Malaysian Organizations Expect to Experience a Breach of Customer Records in the Next Year
Trend Micro Incorporated, a global cybersecurity leader, today revealed that the risk of cyber attacks has increased in the last year. According to a new survey, 73% of organizations in Malaysia report they are likely to experience a data breach that impacts customer data in the next 12 months. The findings come from Trend Micro’s biannual Cyber Risk Index (CRI) report, which measures the gap between respondents’ cybersecurity...
Kaspersky Hybrid Cloud Security Enhances Protection For Linux And Delivers Security Management As A Service
Kaspersky unveils updates to two of its applications in the Kaspersky Hybrid Cloud Security protection solution for virtualization and cloud environments – Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Linux and Kaspersky Security Center management console. The new version of Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Linux hardens defenses from exploits and ransomware attacks. It also extends protection for DevOps with support for new containerization...
Kaspersky Foils Over 2K Mobile Malware Per Day In SEA
As the pandemic continues to grip countries in Southeast Asia (SEA), more workers are expected to set-up their remote office environment, if not continue to work virtually. This trend keeps the population safer physically, but also open vulnerabilities against enterprises. Global cybersecurity company Kaspersky has detected and blocked 382,578 mobile attacks against users in SEA during the first half of 2021. This is a 14% increase...
Ransomware and Data-theft Extortion Attacks Aim Retail Sector
Sophos published the “State of Ransomware in Retail,” which looks at the extent and impact of ransomware attacks on mid-sized retail organizations worldwide during 2020. The results show how retail organizations became a prime target for ransomware during the COVID-19 pandemic, when many retailers started trading online for the first time simply in order to survive, while others saw a huge increase in their web traffic and online...
As Financial Transactions Rise, Local Sector Advised To Improve Threat Intelligence
As local digital money transactions accelerated during the pandemic, the growth is a crucial period for the financial sector to integrate security and improve their threat intelligence capabilities, according to cybersecurity company Kaspersky. “For the large majority of cybercriminals, easy money is the prime motivator. And the financial sector is uniquely positioned to be a target of attacks regardless of season because it’s always...
Sophos Reports on Rampant Raccoon Stealer Campaign that Uses Telegram and Adds Cryptomining and Cryptocurrency Theft
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has published new research, “Trash Panda as a Service: Raccoon Stealer Steals Cookies, Cryptocoins and More,” detailing how a stealer disguised as pirated software grabs cryptocurrencies and information while dropping malicious content, such as cryptominers, on targeted systems. “With much of daily and professional life now reliant on services delivered through a web browser,...
Kaspersky: Servers In Malaysia Require Better Cyber Defense
The continuing pandemic situation in Malaysia did not go unnoticed for cybercriminals. With the majority of Malaysians still working, studying, and doing daily activities virtually from their homes, Kaspersky has monitored an increase in terms of online threats in the country. According to the fresh data from Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), the global cybersecurity company has detected 28,931,223 unique Internet-borne cyberthreats...
Kaspersky Ranked ‘Champion’ In The Canalys Global Leadership Matrix For The Second Consecutive Year
Kaspersky has achieved ‘Champion’ status, for the second consecutive year, in the 2021 Cybersecurity Leadership Matrix by Canalys, a renowned global technology market analyst firm with a distinct channel focus. The global cybersecurity company attained the coveted ranking with an increase of 12.7% in the overall partner rating. Kaspersky was the highest-rated vendor by partners across many categories, including pricing speed and...
Less DDOS Attacks And Small Geographic Shifts In Q2 2021
In the second quarter of 2021, the total number of DDoS attacks decreased by 38.8% compared to Q2 2020, and by 6.5% in comparison to the previous quarter in 2021. China became the leader in the number of devices from which SSH attacks were carried out. At the same time, China continued to lose ground in terms of the total number of DDoS attacks (10.2%). The USA remains the leader (36%) in this category for the second quarter in a row,...
Trouble With The Exact Sciences: Kaspersky Evaluates Student Performance During Enforced Distance Learning In APAC
According to a recent Kaspersky survey, more than half of children in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region (55%) who switched to remote learning due to the pandemic prefer in-person education. Although the percentage is high, with almost 1 in 2 Asian kids liking face-to-face classroom more than online sessions, it is lowest compared with other regions globally. Children in Latin America have the strongest preference for the traditional...
Ingram Micro Advances Sophos MSP Connect Flex Partner Program In Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand And Indonesia
Sophos and Ingram Micro have announced an expanded partnership, which will see the distributor working to recruit new managed services partners to the Sophos MSP Connect Flex program. Ingram Micro is already one of Sophos’ leading cloud partner distributors worldwide and this initiative is expected to expand Sophos’ reach across Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. Lee Welch, executive director, Cloud Services, Ingram Micro,...
