Sen. Francis Tolentino is seeking the inclusion of a “cyber-attack” provision under the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty with the United States, saying that the battlefield now also includes skirmishes in cyberspace as there have reports of so-called “state-sponsored” cyber-attacks.
The survey said in 2022, cybercriminals targeted critical infrastructure with ransomware attacks and they also continued to find new ways to exploit the cryptocurrency boom, hybrid working, and, more recently, unsecured APIs.
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike singled out China’s actors as the most concerning threat to Philippine organizations’ cybersecurity due to China’s attempts to dominate the APJ and South East Asian region, as exemplified by the its incursions into the West Philippine Sea.
