Recent undercover work by the telco’s cybersecurity operations team bared that the link found in newer text messages directs customers to a group chat in the messaging application WhatsApp.
Ten government agencies, including the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and Department of Justice (DOJ), have joined efforts to catch those behind the epidemic of smishing and text spams luring Filipinos into spurious investment schemes and work-from-home jobs.
On top of that, there will be growth of attacks against payment systems and more advanced mobile threats, while cybercriminals will take advantage of investors by fabricating rogue wallets with backdoors included.
The breach incident has made the rounds online after social media personality Christian Albert “Xian” Gaza disclosed information on the ransomware attack in a number of posts in his Facebook page.
Hotel booking site RedDoorz recently fell victim to a large-scale data breach, exposing 5.9 million Southeast Asian users’ personal data, a majority of which came from its largest market in Indonesia. Ever since the pandemic accelerated digital transformation, so too have cyberthreat actors proliferated and went bolder in their attacks.
Cybersecurity provider Palo Alto Networks recently revealed the findings from its threat research team Unit 42 that shed light on the major disconnect between an organization’s perception of their security to the reality of threats that pose great risk and can impact the business catastrophically.
Re-electionist senator Sherwin Gatchalian took note of a recent incident relayed in a newspaper column on how a housewife's credit card was charged P1.7 million after her SIM card was replaced by fraudsters to underhandedly carry out online credit card transactions.
The Bankers Association of the Philippines (BAP) has launched its Anti-Scam Campaign, a wide-ranging information campaign undertaken with various partners that aims to promote cybersecurity, cybersafety, and awareness among the Filipino banking public.
