Malware

Retail Asia10/01/2022

What do you get when you combine the untimely death of a hugely popular piece of software once used on everything from smartphones to PCs with the insatiable thirst for unlawful financial gains of highly skilled hackers? A scary new malware campaign that, to be perfectly honest, should be pretty easy to avoid by now for […]

Retail Asia13/01/2020

Malware caused Vietnamese users damage worth VND20.89 trillion ($900.8 million) last year, up 40 percent year-on-year. The surge came with the rising number of computers contaminated with malware from advanced persistent threats (APT), according to a report released Thursday by Vietnam’s cybersecurity firm BKAV. The number of computers infected with malware rose 3.5 percent year-on-year […]

Retail Asia11/10/2018

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In the first half of 2018, IoT devices were attacked with more than 120,000 modifications of malware, according to the Kaspersky Lab IoT report. That’s more than triple the amount of IoT malware seen in the whole of 2017. Kaspersky Lab warns that the snowballing growth of malware families for smart devices is a continuation […]

Retail Asia28/08/2017

Emerging APAC nations are the most vulnerable to malware, according to Microsoft’s bi-annual Security Intelligence Report (SIR). Of the top locations across the globe most at risk of malware infection in the first quarter of 2017, most of them are developing economies in the region. The report found that Bangladesh and Pakistan have the highest […]

Retail Asia16/05/2017

WannaCry malware attack has not disrupted the countrys share market, Tito Sulistio, President Director, Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX), stated here, Monday. “The stock authority performs a routine check two hours before opening at 9 a.m. I directly oversaw todays monitoring system; I hope the market is protected from any threats, including the virus (ransomware),” Sulistio […]

Retail Asia30/03/2017

Nokia’s latest Threat Intelligence Report indicates that there was a steady increase in mobile device infections throughout 2016. Malware struck an estimated 1.35% of all mobile devices in October – the highest level seen since reporting started in 2012. The overall infection rate meanwhile increased 63% sequentially in the second half of 2016. Smartphones were […]

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 […]

Tag: Malware

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Malware costs Vietnam $900 mln

IoT malware grew threefold in H1

Emerging APAC nations most exposed to malware

Cyber attack not disrupting stock market at IDX

Mobile malware infections continue to rise

Global Threat Index shows rise in malware attacks