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Indonesia chalked up the highest number of financial phishing incidents (208,238). Vietnam comes as a second close with 172,694, and Malaysia recorded 120,656. Thailand logged 101,461 phishing attempts related to finances, followed by the Philippines with 52,914, and Singapore with 22,109.

Newly released insights from cybersecurity company Kaspersky have revealed its users in the Philippines received repeated attacks from threats through removable drives and infected websites in 2022 compared to 2021.

Kaspersky’s global research, conducted among 834 IT decision-makers from APAC, shows a loss or exposure of corporate and customer information because of a data breach is a major headache for companies.

More than one in ten top managers here admit they have never heard of cybersecurity terms like DecSecOps (10%), SOC (10%), Pentesting (10%), and ZeroTrust (6%).

Kaspersky says both IT and non-IT managers should not lock themselves in a professional “information bubble.”

Kaspersky said that after the series release of the “The Last of Us” universe, hundreds of thousands of new fans are expected to buy the game.

For the company, one notable tip for the New Year is for parents to dive deep into their children’s online interests.

While the broader geopolitical analysis of the conflict in Ukraine and its consequences are best left to experts, a number of cyber-events took place during the conflict that turned out to be very significant.

These types of mobile malware get into computers through infected attachments, manipulated text messages or fake websites and can read passwords, record keyboard strokes or take the entire computer hostage.

Kaspersky recorded 77,092 phishing incidents in Q2 among its e-shop customers in the country from only 15,119 in Q1. This reveals a 409% surge in phishing attempts from April to June this year.