Sophos Achieves Perfect Scores in SE Labs’ Protection Tests
The global cybersecurity leader Sophos today announced that its endpoint products ranked top in all three of SE Labs’ protection tests in the first quarter of 2022, achieving a 100% total protection accuracy score across the board. This repeats the three perfect test results in the first quarter of 2021. Sophos’ Intercept X leads the enterprise and small business categories, and Sophos Home Premium is the top consumer security...
SMBs Should Go For Digital Payments, More Than 1 In 2 Of SEA Users Say
More than half of e-finance users (67%) in Southeast Asia (SEA) believe that small and medium businesses (SMBs) should begin using digital payments for financial transactions. This is one of the findings of a study on 1,618 people conducted by cybersecurity company Kaspersky in a bid to identify the attitude and challenges of digital payment users in the region. Among the countries in SEA, consumers in Malaysia (72%) strongly favored...
Kaspersky Takes 1st Place In 76% Of Tests, Demonstrating Technological Excellence
In 2021, Kaspersky’s security portfolio held the leading position in the TOP3 metric. Over the year, Kaspersky participated in 75 independent tests and reviews with its products being awarded 57 firsts and 63 TOP3 finishes. The TOP3 metric shows how successful a vendor is by measuring its performance across a number of independent tests within a calendar year. Consistent performance across multiple tests and products gives a...
“Hello, It’s Me”: Fakecalls’ Trojan Imitates Phone Conversations With Bank Employees
The banking Trojan dubbed Fakecalls masquerades as a banking app and mimics the telephone customer support of the most popular South Korean banks. Unlike regular banking Trojans, it can discreetly intercept calls to real banks using their own connection. Under the guise of bank employees, the cybercriminals try to coax payment data or other confidential information out of the victim. Kaspersky researchers uncovered the Fakecalls’...
Attackers Infiltrate a Single Server for Five Months, Using it to Browse Online for Tools to Help Them With Further Parts of the Attack, Sophos Finds
Sophos has released findings on how attackers breached and spent five months inside a regional government server in the U.S., using it to browse online for a mix of hacker and IT administration tools that could help them carry out the attack. The attackers also installed a cryptominer before exfiltrating data and deploying Lockbit ransomware. The findings are detailed in a new article, “Attackers Linger on Government Agency Computers...
Board Level Executives Assume They’ll Never Be Attacked, Despite Rising Ransomware Incidents, Sophos Survey Reveals
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has announced the findings of the third edition of its survey report, The Future of Cybersecurity in Asia Pacific and Japan, in collaboration with Tech Research Asia (TRA). The study reveals a lack of boardroom awareness of cybersecurity, and a broad assumption from executives that their company will never get attacked, despite rising ransomware incidences, impact and cost....
Kaspersky: Nearly 3 In 4 In SEA Encountered At Least One Cyberthreat Against Digital Payment Methods
A recent Kaspersky research showed a positive correlation between the adoption of digital payment methods and the awareness of the risks and threats that are associated with them in Southeast Asia (SEA). Titled “Mapping a secure path for the future of digital payments in APAC”, the study discovered that nearly all respondents in SEA (97%) were aware of at least one type of threat against e-payment platforms, while almost three in four...
Let’s Enter The Holy Ramadan And Observe A Safer Raya
Ramadan is synonymous to families starting their annual preparation including hunting for many seasonal promos online. Cybercriminals, skilled with their knowledge of current trends and occasions, are also out to launch phishing sites and different scams to victimise users during the holiday season. Between 2017 until 2021, Malaysians have suffered losses amounting to about RM2.23 billion from cyber frauds. The statistics from the...
Attackers Are Using the Log4Shell Vulnerability to Deliver Backdoors to Virtual Servers
Sophos today released findings on how attackers are using the Log4Shell vulnerability to deliver backdoors and profiling scripts to unpatched VMware Horizon servers, paving the way for persistent access and future ransomware attacks. A new technical paper, “Horde of Miner Bots and Backdoors Leveraged Log4J to Attack VMware Horizon Servers,” details the tools and techniques used to compromise the servers and deliver three different...
Quick, Cheap And Dangerous: How Scammers Are Creating Thousands Of Fake Pages Using Phishing Kits
In 2021 Kaspersky researchers blocked 1.2 million individual phishing pages based on 469 phishing kits — which are ready-made fake page templates, that allowing cybercriminals to launch phishing attacks effortlessly. Since a phishing site can be blocked quickly, fraudsters are keen to generate these pages quickly and in large numbers. Using phishing kits, even an inexperienced phisher can create hundreds of phishing pages in a short...
Kaspersky Safe Kids receives AV-TEST Approved Parental Control Software Certificate
Based on its performance in 2021, Kaspersky Safe Kids has been recognized by AV-TEST as having a comprehensive split of features necessary to protect children across devices using Android, Windows and iOS. AV-TEST noted a high level of website category detection and the ability to manage such access. The test results also showed a reliable level of restriction to inappropriate web pages, which provides safe browsing for little ones....
Beyond Finances: The Additional Costs of Data Breaches in SEA
Protecting corporate and personal data has become a necessity for modern businesses in Southeast Asia (SEA), especially for the past two years. Unfortunately, with new threats emerging during the pandemic and the extended period of remote work it introduced, businesses have to tackle both internal financial risks and external cyber threats. Kaspersky today deep dives on the current cost of data breaches in Southeast Asia – monetary...
Crypto-trading Scam Demands Thousands of Dollars in Fake “Profit Tax” To Unlock Victims’ Accounts, Sophos Finds
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has released new insight into an international cryptocurrency trading scam called CryptoRom that targets iPhone and Android users through popular dating apps, such as Bumble and Tinder. The new research, “CryptoRom Swindlers Continue to Target Vulnerable iPhone/Android Users,” is based on first hand stories and content shared with Sophos by victims of the scam who got in touch...
Business Email Compromise Attacks Scale Up To 8000 In Q4, Become More Targeted
Business e-mail compromise (BEC) attacks are a type of fraud that involves impersonating a representative from a trusted business. According to Verizon, it was the second most common type of social engineering attack in 2021, and the FBI reported that BEC attacks cost U.S. businesses more than $2 billion from 2014 to 2019. Kaspersky experts are increasingly observing BEC attacks. In Q42021, Kaspersky products prevented over 80000 BEC...
Sophos Appoints Chad Cleevely As Asia Pacific And Japan Channel Sales Director
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has appointed Chad Cleevely as director, channel sales, Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). In this role, Cleevely will lead Sophos’ channel operations across the APJ region working with partners and customers to provide the cybersecurity solutions and services required to protect them from today’s fast changing cyberattacks, including ransomware. Cleevely joins Sophos from Quest...
2021 Mobile Threats Report: Cybercriminals Forego Low Hanging Fruit To Go After Banking And Gaming
In 2021, Kaspersky saw a steady decline in attacks on mobile devices, while cybercriminals consolidated their efforts to focus on more dangerous (and profitable) threats instead. New mobile malware has become increasingly complex, featuring new ways to steal users’ banking and gaming credentials, as well as other strands of personal data. In 2021 Kaspersky detected more than 95,000 new mobile banking Trojans, but the number of attacks...
Kaspersky Promotes Sandra Lee to Managing Director, APAC
Kaspersky is proud to announce the appointment of Sandra Lee as Managing Director for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Sandra and her team will drive the company’s strategy and overall growth in the region. “APAC has always been a focus market for the company and I am excited to take up this leadership role as we continue to see great business opportunities here. With our strong regional team and solid partner ecosystem, I am looking...
Tracking Your Heartbeat…And Payment Data? 33 Vulnerabilities Found In The Data Transfer Protocol For Wearable Devices
Kaspersky experts have discovered that the most commonly used protocol for transferring data from wearable devices used for remote patient monitoring contained 33 vulnerabilities, including 18 “critical vulnerabilities” in 2021 alone. This is 10 more critical vulnerabilities than in 2020, and many of them remain unpatched. Some of these vulnerabilities give attackers the potential to intercept data being sent online from the device....
More Than 3 In 5 In SEA Want OTP Via SMS In Every E-Payment Transaction
A recent Kaspersky research showed that e-payment adopters in Southeast Asia (SEA) are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of safeguarding their financial data amidst the rapid rise of digital payment use in the region. And they are clear on the additional security features they hope to see implemented by banks and mobile wallet providers here, moving forward. Titled “Mapping a secure path for the future of digital payments...
Kaspersky Celebrates Fourfold Growth In MSP Sales Since 2019
In the first three years of its MSP Foundation project, Kaspersky has achieved fourfold growth in sales among its managed service providers. In addition, the number of active partners has increased three and a half times since 2018, with significant growth in countries within Europe, North America, and South Africa. The introduction of a flexible pay-as-you-go monthly subscription payment plan, user-friendly License Management Portal...
