Privacy Risks Of Online Dating: Every 6th User Has Been Doxed While Looking For A Relationship
During the past few decades, the world has rapidly shifted towards digitalization of everyday practices, including dating. In some countries dating apps became the most popular way for people to meet, while modern couples’ communication is almost unthinkable without social media. However, there is another side of the coin: with love transferring to the digital world, the gathering and public exposure of personal data (also known as...
Ready, Set, Scam: Top-5 Schemes Cybercriminals are Running Amid the Olympic Games
After an unprecedented year-long delay, the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics are set to start on July 23, 2021. This time, all the events will take place with no spectators, which reduces physical risks – in terms of health and from cybersecurity point of view (like such as data theft using the vulnerabilities of public Wi-Fi at the stadium). However, sport enthusiasts should not forget that cybercriminals will aim to take advantage of...
Sophos Research: Ransomware Hit Heavily to The Education Sector in 2020
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, published the “Sophos State of Ransomware in Education 2021,” which looks at the extent and impact of ransomware attacks on educational institutions worldwide during 2020. In the wake of headline grabbing ransomware attacks impacting education, including the REvil ransomware attack on Kaseya that hit schools in New Zealand, and recent alerts from the FBI and the UK’s National...
Phishing in Messenger Apps – What’s New?
Anonymized data, voluntarily provided by Kaspersky Internet Security for Android users, has shown which messenger apps are the most popular among phishing scammers. The biggest share of detected malicious links between December 2020 and May 2021 were sent via WhatsApp (89.6%), followed by Telegram (5.6%). Viber is in third place with a share of 4.7% and Hangouts has less than one percent. Countries experiencing the highest number of...
Sophos Acquires Capsule8 to Bring Powerful and Lightweight Linux Server and Cloud Container Security to its Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem (ACE)
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, today announced that it has acquired Capsule8, a pioneer and market leader of runtime visibility, detection and response for Linux production servers and containers covering on-premise and cloud workloads. Founded in 2016, Capsule8 is privately held and headquartered in New York, NY. “Sophos already protects more than two million servers for over 85,000 customers worldwide, and...
Millennials, Boomers More Guarded About Future Tech
Gen Z and Gen X in Southeast Asia (SEA) are less afraid about future technologies such as biometrics, smart appliances, robotic devices and deepfakes while Millennials and Boomers have their guards up. These are some more key findings from Kaspersky’s research “Making Sense of Our Place in the Digital Reputation Economy”. The research conducted just last November 2020 asked 831 social media users in SEA about their level of fear...
Dating Apps In 2021: Technically Safer But Threats Of Stalking And Doxing Still Loom
From robot companions to AI choosing the perfect partner, technology has become permanently entwined with dating and finding love, especially after a year and a half of lockdown that made digital connections the only type possible. To understand the security implications of this trend, Kaspersky researchers conducted an in-depth study of nine popular dating apps to assess how safe they were. What they found was that, when compared to...
Swifter, Wider, Stronger: Kaspersky VPN Secure Connection Reveals New Updates
Kaspersky has improved and expanded its list of available VPN Secure Connection capabilities. This includes the Kill Switch feature – which allows customers to spend time online safely and protects them from risky connectivity interruptions – being made available for iOS. The list of available streaming services has also grown, while the range of geographies through which users can route their traffic is also expanding, along with the...
64% Of Employees Who Argued With The IT Department About Updates Were Allowed To Use Their Current Versions
23% of employees have previously had a dispute with IT staff about the importance or frequency of updating their work devices. Surprisingly, IT teams tend to agree with such demands and let two-thirds (64%) of staff skip installing updates on certain software or OS at all. This was revealed in a study commissioned by Kaspersky to explore workers’ attitudes and habits toward updates. Updates not only bring new functionality and fix...
Kaspersky and BSSN Team Up to Develop Indonesia’s Cybersecurity Capability Amidst Rapid Digitalisation
Global cybersecurity company Kaspersky and Badan Siber dan Sandi Negara (BSSN), the Cyber and Crypto Agency of Indonesia, recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in line with their shared goal of beefing up the cybersecurity capability of the country. Amidst Indonesia’s accelerated digitalization, the agreement aims to further enhance capacity development and institution building on cybersecurity within the government...
35% of Adults Argue with Family Members about Updating
A global survey conducted by Kaspersky, exploring users’ attitudes to updating devices, has found that the activity has become a family affair. According to the research, more than half of respondents who have family (62%), agree that children and elderly relatives need help with updating devices. Additionally, updates can affect relationships at home, with 35% of people admitting to having disputes about it with family members....
eFX Introduces AI-Powered eKYC Solution to Helps Companies Combat Frauds and Money Laundering Activities
e-FX Sdn. Bhd. or eFX has introduced eFX iD, a Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) automation solution for legal compliance and fraud prevention, that allows companies to satisfy the requirements of the regulatory authorities. This artificial intelligence powered identity verification platform also can provide compliance team with powerful tools and perform smooth customer onboarding. To deliver ongoing AML...
VMware Secures Foundations of Southeast Asia’s Digital Infrastructure and Anywhere Workforce
Leading organizations in Southeast Asia have responded, adapted and accelerated their digital transformation efforts in the past year as they pivoted to the sudden remote environment. However, the sprint toward digital transformation has quickly expanded the threat landscape and attackers have seized the opportunity to exploit these the new vulnerabilities. To address this changing threat landscape, VMware, Inc. announced innovations...
Sustaining Modern Men’s Best Health In A Hyper Connected World
Ministry of Health Malaysia (MOH) introduced National Men’s Health Action Plan (2018-2023) to bring to light the importance of paying attention to men’s health. The life expectancy of men in Malaysia is almost five years less than women, 72.7 years compares to 77.4 years for women. MOH also shared the data that men have harder times to demonstrate their mental states of health as compare to women. According to Kristina Barger, an...
TikTok, Roblox and Game Videos: What Kids Were Looking for in 2020-2021
A new Kaspersky Safe Kids study has revealed what children were interested in during 2020 – 2021. Over the past year, their interest has grown in the categories of ‘software, audio and video’ and ‘e-commerce’, while ‘internet communication media’ and ‘computer games’ have slightly decreased. TikTok, YouTube, and WhatsApp are at the top of the most popular applications. At the same time, TikTok overtook Instagram with almost...
Apologies For No-Shows: One In Five Employees Have Missed A Call By Pretending Devices Are Updating
21% of employees confirmed that they have pretended their devices were installing updates so they would not have to attend a call or meeting. This excuse is plausible because software updates can disrupt workdays, with one-third (35%) of employees saying they have been late to a call because of updates. These are the findings of a recent study commissioned by Kaspersky to explore workers’ attitudes and habits toward updates. Frequent...
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...
