Kaspersky & SAMENTA: The Time Is Now To Secure Malaysian SME’s Digital Assets
11 November 2020 – Just when the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia prepared to see their businesses pick up after seeing positive development after the Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO) announcement, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Labuan, Sabah and Putrajaya are currently facing another risk of business slow down with the announcement of Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) in October with the probability of...
UOB Deepens Partnership With Vmware To Enable Safe And Effective Remote Working In The New Normal
10 November 2020 – As the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the majority of the workforce shifting to home-based work, United Overseas Bank (UOB), a leading bank in Asia, collaborated with VMware to enable the Bank to continue its innovation drive without disruption. UOB was one of the fastest organisations in ASEAN to deploy a secure virtual desktop – UOB DevTop – for its team of 3,000 information technology (IT) developers, having done...
Singles Day Is Coming: Phishing Attempts Grow Amid The Large E-Commerce Sale Day In Asia
10 November 2020 – Kaspersky researchers have observed significant growth in fraudulent activities around e-commerce during an active sales period in Asian countries – Singles’ Day (November 11). Originally a sale in China, Singles’ Day is now relevant to everyone around the world who turns to e-markets for shopping, with some of the best deals promoted weeks before the actual holiday. Due to the popularity of Asian shopping...
More Than 5-In-10 Parents In SEA Trust Their Kids To Keep Themselves Safe Online
29 October 2020 – Undoubtedly, the pandemic has pushed kids and parents alike to spend more time online. A fresh study from global cybersecurity company Kaspersky quantified this increase at up to two more hours daily in Southeast Asia (SEA). For moms and dads from the region, 63% agreed that their children are using the internet more than they did last year. Factors such as online classes, virtual tutorials, e-gaming, and...
Social Networks, Messengers And External Cloud Services Are Mostly Used By Employees But Often Exploited By Cyber-Fraudsters
23 October 2020 – There are several web services that employees of small and medium businesses most frequently access while working, according to Kaspersky. These include YouTube, Facebook, Google services and WhatsApp, with some of these applications being the most exploited by malefactors as a springboard for phishing. However, this list differs from the services that employers tend to limit for use on corporate devices. While...
95% Of Enterprises Admit Their Technology Innovations Fail Before Launch
23 October 2020 – According to new research commissioned by Kaspersky, 95% of heads of innovations in enterprises globally admit that their projects often fail before they are launched. Many of these innovations don’t even make it past development stage (36%). A lack of cooperation with IT Security departments also increases the likelihood that a project will never be released. New products developed by enterprises often do not...
Having Everything At Once? Tips For Small Enterprises On How To Choose An EDR Solution That Suits Their Needs
22 October 2020 – The attacks taking place on small and medium enterprises (SME) are becoming more sophisticated, meaning that they cannot be easily prevented by traditional endpoint protection mechanisms. In such cases, timely incident detection is essential to minimizing any potential negative impact. However, this challenging task cannot be done without enhanced endpoint visibility, exploring suspicious activities and...
CISO Checklist: Boxes To Tick When Choosing A Threat Intelligence Provider
22 October 2020 – A long time ago in the cybersecurity space far far away, the choice of a threat intelligence service was often restricted to a handful of providers. Today, the cybersecurity industry in APAC is worth at least USD 30.45 billion and expected to grow at an annual rate of 18.3% from 2020 to 2025, with multiple cybersecurity vendors seeking a bigger slice of the proverbial pie. For any chief information security...
What is Wardriving and How to Prevent it From Happening
When we think of different types of cyber attacks, we rarely think of individuals doing anything other than sitting behind a computer and using the digital universe to undertake all parts of their evil acts. Wardriving, however, actually involves a criminal in a car, in your neighborhood. These criminals still never have any actual contact with their victims, but they do get much closer, physically, than in other cases of hacking. In...
Control-Alt-Can’t Delete: Customized Firmware Bootkit Found In The Wild
17 October 2020 – Kaspersky’s researchers uncovered an advanced persistent threat (APT) espionage campaign that uses a very rarely seen type of malware known as a firmware bootkit. The new malware was detected by Kaspersky’s UEFI / BIOS scanning technology, which detects known and unknown threats. The scanning technology identified a previously unknown malware in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), an essential...
Kaspersky Expert: Targeted Ransomware Groups Such As Maze Spotted In Southeast Asia
16 October 2020 – If there is one positive consequence brought about by the COVID-19 situation in Southeast Asia (SEA), it is to prove that the region has the capability to embrace digitalisation. In fact, a 2020 research conducted by Kaspersky among 760 respondents from the region revealed that nearly 8-in-10 are currently working from home. An additional two to five hours have been added on top of the 8-hour daily surfing...
XOX Adds Cyber Security Offerings
14 October 2020 – XOX Bhd, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, XOX (Hong Kong) Limited, announced today it has acquired through delivery of transfer, 16.37% of Nexion Technological Limited, worth RM23million. Nexion, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange GEM Board, is a well-established information and communication technology solution provider with headquarters in Singapore, focusing on cyber infrastructure and cyber security...
To Play Or Not To Play? Kaspersky Study Reveals 40% Of Parents In SEA Think Their Kids Are “More Grumpy” After A Gaming Session
13 October 2020 – When a child plays video games, parents inevitably think about how harmful it can be. Will this game affect the child’s behaviour? Will he/she start suffering from nightmares? Will there be ineradicable fears? What if the child is already addicted? In fact, research conducted last May by global cybersecurity company Kaspersky showed that four-in-10 of parents from Southeast Asia (SEA) believe that their...
Kaspersky Shares Best Practices with SAMENTA to Secure SMEs’ Assets During the Pandemic
4 October 2020 – Kaspersky teams up with Small and Medium Enterprises Association Malaysia (SAMENTA) in an effort to bring cyber awareness to its members and employees. The workshop session, hosted online by Kaspersky for SAMENTA’s members and employees, focuses on understanding the monetary aspects of cyberthreats to Malaysian small and medium enterprises (SMEs), identifying the common vulnerabilities in the SMEs eco-systems,...
Working From Home Dilemma: Over 4-In-10 In SEA Find It Hard To “Switch-Off” After Work
30 September 2020 – Do you feel that your workload is heavier now that you’re working from home? Do you find it challenging to balance your professional life and personal life because of the current remote work set-up? Kaspersky’s fresh research reveals you are not alone. The latest study titled “More connected than ever before: how we build our digital comfort zones” found out that 46% of respondents from Southeast Asia (SEA)...
Pandemic Fuels the Global Acceleration of Digital Transformation for Organisations
26 September 2020 – The world’s most trusted hacker-powered security platform, HackerOne, shared its 4th Annual Hacker-Powered Security Report this week, taking an incisive look at today’s security landscape powered by the hacker community. Part of the focus in this year’s report seeks to understand how COVID-19 has impacted security across the globe and the challenges organisations and security professionals are facing in this...
Ethical Hackers Find A Software Vulnerability Every 2.5 Minutes
25 September 2020 – Research by HackerOne has revealed ethical hackers are finding over twice as many vulnerabilities in software in 2020 than they were in 2019. Hackers have helped find and resolve over 180,000 vulnerabilities on the HackerOne platform, with one third of those being reported in the past year alone as more and more businesses turn to hackers to help secure their systems. Driven by the pandemic, over a third of...
Hacking The Pandemic: New Documentary Reveals Healthcare Cybercrime Surge Amid COVID-19
24 September 2020 – Tomorrow Unlocked, the online magazine for technology culture created by Kaspersky, is releasing a two-part documentary ‘hacker:HUNTER Ha(ck)cine’ that examines how cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers are attacking the healthcare system. Its first piece will be exclusively premiering on the magazine’s YouTube channel on 25th September. The latest film is the third in the hacker:HUNTER real cybercrime...
Cryptomining: SMBs Need Protection Against The Rapidly Growing Threat In SEA
Over the last decade, major developments have been implemented across Southeast Asian countries in terms of connectivity. Parallel to this is the rise of security threats lurking behind the virtual world. Amongst the threats overlooked, particularly by small and medium businesses (SMBs) in the region is cryptomining. According to Kaspersky’s latest report, the global cybersecurity company has detected 1,726,799 mining attempts...
Check Point Software Technologies Redefines Secure Remote Access for Enterprises
17 September 2020 – Check Point, a leading provider of cyber security solutions globally, today announced the acquisition of a new cloud-based technology that delivers secure remote access created by Odo Security. This technology will integrate with Check Point´s Infinity architecture, and become the easiest and most secure solution for enterprises need to enable employees´ secure remote access to any application. The Covid-19...
