2020 most productive year for “Ransomware 2.0” in APAC
Kaspersky has confirmed that 2020 was the year of “Ransomware 2.0” in Asia Pacific (APAC). Expert from the global cybersecurity company also discussed two notorious ransomware families particularly eyeing victims in the region — REvil and JSWorm. Almost always a “targeted ransomware”, Ransomware 2.0 refers to the groups who moved from hostaging data to exfiltrating data, coupled with blackmailing. The aftermaths of a successful...
Sophos: Adversaries Spend More than 250 Hours Undetected in Target Networks on Average
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, today released the “Active Adversary Playbook 2021,” detailing attacker behaviors and the tools, techniques and procedures (TTPs) that Sophos’ frontline threat hunters and incident responders saw in the wild in 2020. The TTP detection data also covers early 2021. The findings show that the median attacker dwell time before detection was 11 days – or 264 hours – with the longest...
How Companies can Protect Themselves from Targeted Ransomware
The recent attack against an insurance giant’s IT operations in some key countries in the region is unfortunately what our experts have been warning us about since last year. Targeted ransomware attacks or “Ransomware 2.0” are fast-becoming a trend in the cybercriminal world since the Maze group. Malicious ransomware families are now conducting data exfiltration coupled with blackmailing. Using pressure tactics, these cybercriminals...
The Three Little Pigs and your passwords
May 6 is World Password Day but every day is a good day to revisit the strength of your security codes as cybercriminals are continuously trying to gatecrash into your online accounts. This is proven by fresh data from Kaspersky. According to the global cybersecurity and digital privacy company, it has prevented 25% more password stealers in Southeast Asia (SEA) during the first three months of the year compared to the same period in...
Sophos Uncovers 167 Fake Android and iOS Trading and Cryptocurrency Apps
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has identified a stash of 167 counterfeit Android and iOS apps that attackers are using to steal money from people who believe they have installed a financial trading, banking or cryptocurrency app from a well-known and trusted organization. A report on the findings, “Fake Android and iOS apps disguised as trading and cryptocurrency apps,” shows how the attackers used social...
The Vaccination Cyberthreat: Kaspersky Reports Intensified Scamming Activities Around COVID-19 Vaccines In Q1 2021
Scammers are constantly searching for new ways to steal users’ data. Last year, a completely new category of opportunity became one of the most profitable scams for fraudsters. They extensively used COVID-19 related spam letters and phishing pages to benefit from the year’s most alarming and high-profile news story. According to a new Kaspersky report, “Spam and Phishing in Q1 2021” scammers are continuing to exploit this...
Sophos “State of Ransomware 2021” Reveals That 59% Of Malaysian Organizations Expect To Be Hit In The Future
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, today announced the findings of its global survey, “The State of Ransomware 2021,” which reveals that 59% of Malaysian organizations not hit by ransomware last year expect to be hit in the future. Furthermore, 59% of these respondents say it is because ransomware attacks are increasingly hard to stop due to their sophistication; 58% of them say ransomware is already so...
Check Point Software Shows How To Prevent Password Theft
Every year, on the first Thursday of May, World Password Day is celebrated, which in this 2021 of widespread remote working becomes even more relevant. Many users are under the false belief that a cybercriminal has no reason to have any interest in their person or their computer. For this reason, Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. wants to remember the importance of cybersecurity education and the effective use of passwords on...
Majority Of Social Media Users In SEA Want To Keep Their Financial Data Offline
Do you feel afraid every time you input your credit card information or banking details on a shopping site or a payment app? You are not alone, at least according to a survey from the global cybersecurity and digital privacy company Kaspersky. The report titled “Making Sense of Our Place in the Digital Reputation Economy” discovered some types of personal information are sacred to social media users in Southeast Asia (SEA), which they...
The Know-How You Need: Kaspersky Experts Share A Guide To Staying Safe From Doxing
Sharing and geotagging photos, uploading documents to the cloud, installing a new application, and even browsing online retail stores – we deal with personal data management daily, whether we realize it or not. Often, it is not clear what data we share, and most importantly, who are the final recipients of the data that makes us vulnerable. One of the threats that online users of all ages, professions, and backgrounds face is doxing –...
Assessing the State of Mobile Application Security through the Lens of COVID-19
Synopsys recently released a report, “Peril in a Pandemic: The State of Mobile Application Security,” produced by its Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC), examining the state of mobile application security during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study encompassed 3,335 of the most popular Android mobile applications on the Google Play Store as of the first quarter of 2021. Leveraging Synopsys’ Black Duck® Binary Analysis, the CyRC found...
Old But Gold: 22% Of PC Users Still Running End-Of-Life Windows 7 OS
Kaspersky conducted a study based on anonymized OS metadata provided by consenting Kaspersky Security Network users. The survey has found that almost one quarter (22%) of PC users are still using the end-of-life OS Windows 7, which stopped receiving mainstream support in January 2020. When an OS comes to the end of its lifecycle, no more updates will be issued by the vendor, including critical security fixes. Although a trusted...
Bank-related Scams: How to Keep Your Money Safe Online
One of Malaysia’s largest bank recently issued a scam alert warning to its customers about a new fake website created by fraudsters to steal customer’s banking details, which include username and password. Links to these copy-cat sites are normally sent through SMS, email or social messaging platforms with an urgent note requesting the recipient or customer to log in or update their bank account details. Such modus is not new as...
Atlas Vending Innovates Through Atlas Hack Virtual Hackathon
26 April 2021 (MY) – The recently concluded ATLAS Hack Virtual Hackathon, Malaysia’s first Smart Retail Hackathon which was held from the 5th to 7th of March, with its Grand Finals on the 13th of March saw amazing innovative ideas developed by Malaysian tech talents for the retail vending space. ATLAS Hack was organised by ATLAS Vending, the largest food & beverage vending machine operator in Malaysia & Singapore as...
Sophos Unveils XGS Series Firewall Appliances with Industry-Best Transport Layer Security (TLS) Inspection
26 April 2021 (MY) – Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, today unveiled new XGS Series firewall appliances with unrivaled performance and advanced protection against cyberattacks. The new appliances feature industry-best Transport Layer Security (TLS) inspection, including native support for TLS 1.3, that is up to five times faster than other models available on the market today. “Sophos Firewall XGS Series...
Ransomware Targeting SEA SMBs Drops In 2020 Vs 2019
20 April 2021 (MY) – Global cybersecurity company Kaspersky reported a significant decrease in the number of ransomware attempts it has detected and foiled among its small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) users in the Southeast Asian (SEA) region. In its latest Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) report, the company revealed less than one million ransomware attempts (804,513) were monitored in 2020, less than half of 2019’s over...
Kaspersky Protects Over 9,000 Clients from Malware Attacks via Infected Marketplace App
12 April 2021 (MY) – Kaspersky experts have found malicious code in version 3.17.18 for the official client of the APKPure app store. To date, products belonging to 9,380 Kaspersky users have detected and blocked the threat. According to the researchers, the code was found in the advertising library of the application. The code likely appeared there because of the app developers’ partnership with an unscrupulous advertiser....
Cybercriminals Deploy Pandemic, Vaccine Themes To Target Banks, Cryptocurrency Exchanges In SEA
20 March 2021 (MY) – COVID. Codes. Cash. What do they have in common? Cybercriminals. In a virtual media conference, global cybersecurity company Kaspersky unmasked the latest cyberthreats banking and financial services industry should be on guard against, as the pandemic continues in Southeast Asia (SEA). Kaspersky’s cybersecurity expert noted the main trends witnessed in the cyberspace last year, and will continue in 2021....
Kaspersky Named a “Leader” in IDC MarketScape: Endpoint Detection and Response Market Evaluation
18 March 2021 (MY) – Kaspersky faces greater competition in China market, it needs to continuously develop innovative market cooperation models and establish a healthy security ecosystem, striving to provide security products and services that meet the demands of the China market. At the same time, today’s rapidly changing information technology and cybersecurity environment requires enterprises and organizations to...
Kept Under Wraps: Half Of Companies Prohibit Sharing Threat Intelligence Findings With Professional Communities
12 March 2021 (MY) – Two-thirds (66%) of threat intelligence (TI) analysts are involved in professional communities, but 52% of all those working in IT and cybersecurity roles are not allowed to share threat intelligence artifacts discovered through those communities, finds a new Kaspersky report, ‘Managing your IT security team’. Kaspersky is a long-time advocate for international collaboration in cyberspace and contributes to...
