attacks

Retail Asia15/02/2021

More than 100 financial firms were victims of distributed denial-of-service attacks by the same threat actor with North America and Europe overwhelmingly making up the dominant share, according to a recent report. Cyber intelligence sharing group FS-ISAC said that over 100 financial services firms were targets of a wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks – a method of […]

Retail Asia16/04/2018

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Singapore is in the top five destinations globally for IoT attacks, the latest installment of F5 Networks’ The Hunt for IoT series shows. The report, The Growth and Evolution of Thingbots Ensures Chaos, suggests the island nation has a sizable and vulnerable IoT deployment. The other destinations in the top five are United States, Spain, Italy, and […]

Retail Asia26/09/2017

Asia Pacific was heavily hit by cyber attacks during the first six months of the year, taking more attacks than other regions in most threat categories, according to Trend Micro. Globally, Trend Micro detected 82 million ransomware threats and found that on average, 28 new ransomware families were created every month. The company also blocked more […]

Retail Asia20/02/2017

Unsecured IoT devices continued to drive significant DDoS attack traffic in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to Akamai’s latest State of the Internet / Security Report. The fourth quarter report also revealed that attacks greater than 100 Gbps increased to 12 during the quarter, a 40% year-over-year increase. Seven of the 12 Q4 2016 […]

Retail Asia02/12/2016

The number of malware attacks increased in October, according to Check Point Software’s monthly Global Threat Index. Check Point’s Threat Intelligence Research Team found that both the number of active malware families and number of attacks increased by 5% during the period, pushing the number of attacks on business networks to near peak levels, as […]

Retail Asia28/10/2016

Singapore’s StarHub has blamed DDoS attacks originating from its customers’ own infected devices for two broadband outages over the past few days. At a press conference yesterday, StarHub announced the latest findings of an investigation into the outages on October 22 and 24. Both outages lasted for around two hours, leaving many home broadband customers […]

Tag: attacks

Over 100 Financial Firms Hit by DDoS Attacks

Singapore among top five destinations for IoT attacks

APAC battered by cyber attacks in 1H17

IoT devices drive DDoS attack traffic in Q4

Global Threat Index shows rise in malware attacks

DDoS attacks caused StarHub broadband outages