e-Security

The 2023 Google Bad Apps Report, which provides a yearly update on Google’s fight against malicious actors, developers, and their apps, was released last week and the findings held bad tidings for the Asia Pacific region.

It is currently unknown to the public whether the website is under maintenance, experiencing unspecified technical issues, or undergoing a cyberattack.

Blackpanda, a Singapore-headquartered digital forensics and cybersecurity firm founded by a former member of the US Army Special Forces, has released its first proprietary study analyzing cyber security vulnerabilities in SMEs across the Asia Pacific region.

Ransomware targeting businesses in SEA last year was highest in Thailand with 109,315 incidents blocked by Kaspersky.

Internet giant Google recently reported that it removed and blocked over 5.5 billion “bad” ads in 2023, up from 2022 and an initiative that was optimized by the power of generative AI.

Initial findings indicate that the breach includes the personal data of approximately 597 data subjects, all of whom are employees of DOST.

Facebook pages posing as Western military consultancy firms but may be linked to China, appear to be targeting Filipino defense industry researchers and analysts, a study by Newsbytes.PH showed.

Local hacking group HulkSec Philippines has implied that it is responsible for the ongoing hack of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) Facebook page.

Survey respondents cite AI-powered attacks as the most serious emerging attack vector and the most challenging to handle.

On Sunday, March 24, a hacktivist known as "ph1ns" breached the websites of three companies owned by RYM Business Management Corporation, a business holding firm owned by the family of House speaker Martin Romualdez, who is the first cousin of Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr.