In the third quarter of 2019, the number of DDoS attacks rose by a third compared to the previous period (30 percentage points) and Q3 2018 (32 percentage points) according to statistics gathered from Kaspersky DDoS Protection. This growth was primarily due to a spike in malicious activity in autumn....
Kaspersky data from January to September 2019 show the Philippines placed third among Southeast Asian countries with the highest Android mobile malware attempts detected and blocked by the cybersecurity company. The Philippines has been in the same spot since 2017 next to list-toppers Indonesia and Malaysia, respectively. Number of Android...
Global cybersecurity company Kaspersky through iSecure Networks has teamed up with local financing company Home Credit to bring affordable Android mobile security to Filipino users. There are currently about 88.5 million Android users in the Philippines who use the Internet for 10 hours each day and are unfortunately extremely vulnerable...
Attackers hunting for intelligence from banks, government, financial and military organizations reveals Kaspersky’s Q3 2019 report An Android malware disguising as a mobile messenger or as a cryptocurrency app targeting individual cryptocurrency trader and organization, an infamous APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) group continuously changing its tools to compromise banks, and...
In 45% of enterprises, the proportion of women working in IT security departments is less than that in the rest of the company’s workforce. However, of these organizations only 37% of them have in place, or considered applying, formal programs that will bring more women into cybersecurity security – a...
Kaspersky has launched a new solution designed to help organizations and property owners defend themselves from unauthorized trespassing by civilian drones. Through an exceptional combination of several sensors – including a new approach to drone detection founded by the company using laser scanning – and machine learning technologies, Kaspersky Antidrone...
Kaspersky honeypots – networks of virtual copies of various internet connected devices and applications – have detected 105 million attacks on IoT devices coming from 276,000 unique IP addresses in the first six months of the year. This figure is around nine times more than the number found in H1...
The social influence of robots on people and the insecurities this can bring should not be underestimated. Research conducted by Kaspersky and Ghent University has found that robots can effectively extract sensitive information from people who trust them, by persuading them to take unsafe actions. For example, in certain scenarios,...
Weighing up when to give your children online independence is one of the biggest dilemmas a modern parent can face. From stranger danger to cyberbullying, parents need to feel assured their kids will stay safe on the Internet. A new global survey from Kaspersky has found that when it comes...
A recent Kaspersky survey has discovered that two-thirds (67% ) of industrial organizations do not report cybersecurity incidents to regulators. Though remaining compliant in modern industrial business is a necessity and a driver for investment, there are many factors that influence how companies follow compliance rules. In a world where...
The number of users that encountered at least one so-called stalkerware (commercial spyware often used as a tool for domestic espionage) installation attempt surpassed 37,000 in the first eight months of 2019 (from January to August 2019). This is a 35% increase when compared to figures for the same period...
Enterprises with an internal Security Operation Center (SOC) estimate their financial damage from a cyberattack at $675k[DM1] , which is less than half the average impact cost for all enterprise-level organizations ($1.41m[DM2] ), a new survey from Kaspersky and B2B International has revealed. Among other changes that a business can...
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