Cybersecurity professional Albert “Abet” Dela Cruz has proposed a national digital safety framework requiring platforms to restrict features for minors by default, device makers to incorporate safety controls during activation, and the government to expand digital literacy programs for parents.
Data from Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team showed that its systems detected more than 3.4 million backdoor attacks and 2.4 million password-stealer incidents across the region during the six-month period. Around 250,000 ransomware attacks were also blocked.
House Bill No. 9605, or the proposed “National Cybersecurity and Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 2026,” cleared second reading on July 28, according to the House’s legislative records.
The Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) called for closer coordination among government agencies, law enforcement authorities, businesses and consumers as increasingly interconnected cyber threats put more Filipinos at risk of digital fraud.
Cybersecurity is no longer just an IT issue but a business risk that now demands board-level attention, according to Palo Alto Networks, as artificial intelligence speeds up both cyberattacks and the tools used to defend against them.
Sophos has joined the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, becoming one of the cybersecurity firms integrating OpenAI's frontier AI capabilities into commercial security products and managed services.
A legal analysis released by local law firm Geronimo Law is calling for the consolidation of the Philippine cybersecurity enforcement functions, arguing that the current system of overlapping agencies creates confusion, duplicates work, and slows responses to cyber incidents.
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and Google Cloud have entered into a multi-year collaboration aimed at expanding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and strengthening cybersecurity across government agencies.
While security vendors are increasingly embedding AI into their platforms to speed up threat detection and reduce analyst workloads, attackers are using the same technology to automate phishing campaigns, generate malware, and enhance social engineering tactics.
About six in 10 Filipino users of digital devices experienced at least one cybersecurity incident in 2024, according to the latest findings of the Philippine Statistics Authority's (PSA) National Information and Communications Technology Household Survey (NICTHS).
