APAC hardest hit by ransomware to the tune of US$1.18m
This is according to a global survey involving 800 responding firms in the region.
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday phishing attacks have doubled since October
While bracing ourselves for these and other year-end online shopping offers, watch out for the scammers, breaches and phishing campaigns.
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Resource-based policy APIs from AWS found to be exploitable
Cyberthreat researchers have singled out Amazon S3, KMS and SQS and a dozen other APIs that can be exploited.
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Japan’s PIPA prompts car maker to adopt secure identity management
Its newly-launched customer engagement portal now offers multifactor authentication and frictionless identity management for more than 550,000 users.
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The rise of ransomware 2.0
Why risk having your ransomware victims refuse to pay when you can also add extortion threats that can ruin their business?
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Children’s online gaming site caught in a jam and a pickle
Suffering a breach of data amounting to 46m accounts and countless unforeseen consequences, the platform is in hot soup.
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Lazarus misuses legitimate security software in a supply-chain attack in South Korea
Specific configuration options of a security application, coupled with compromised websites, led to an exploit that passed malware code as safe.
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Tackling Hong Kong’s cybersecurity talent shortage with training courses
More skilled IT security professionals will be needed, and the demand for training courses has to be satisfied.
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Ransomware is evolving to deal with financial institutions
Here are five of the most notorious threat actors for the financial services industries across APAC and the world.
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Switzerland ranked for Cyber Risk literacy and Education
Close contenders are Singapore, the United Kingdom and Australia, according to a study of 49 geographies and the EU.
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Researchers develop open-source tool to check for data leakage from AI systems
‘Membership Inference attacks’ allow hackers to obtain useful data from AI systems. A new tool can now seal up this loophole.
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Up next on hackers’ speargun crosshairs: educational institutions
As schools and colleges reopen progressively after the academic holiday period, hackers will ramp up BEC and spear-phishing campaigns: study
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October 2020’s Most Wanted malware
Trickbot and Emotet topped the charts last month, being increasingly used for distributing ransomware against hospitals and healthcare providers globally.
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Are you one of the victims of the leaked 23,600 databases?
Act now, because that data will be circulation among hackers right now and ready for massive credential-stuffing campaigns. When data stolen in a...
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Can contactless payment include fingerprint contact?
Instead of contacting cash, your fingers contact a fingerprint sensor. Three firms are piloting the first biometric smart card in Asia.
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APT group’s novel DLL-sideloads to target Myanmar NGOs
Based on the embedded political messages and past uses of a China-linked backdoor malware, threat hunters suspect China state-sponsored hackers.
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Cyberthreat trend review Q2 2020: Pandemic-theme threats rage on
PowerShell-based malware surged 117% due to malicious Donoff documents, and there were 7.5m attacks on Cloud users.
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Asian bank’s digitalization upgrade scores three industry innovations within months
This was despite managing 3,000 home-based developers around the region to work undisrupted on innovating and improving on customer experience.
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Ransomware attacks on health sectors are not easing up
Upticks in the United States and APAC are indicative of hacker desperation amid socio-political and economic unrest.
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US hospitals targeted in rising wave of Ryuk ransomware attacks
The Asia Pacific and EMEA regions are no less vulnerable, and are a reflection of current medical, socio-political and financial trends.
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