Local threats continue to haunt businesses in Southeast Asia, Kaspersky warns. (Photo: Kaspersky) It was followed by Indonesia with 14.6 million and Thailand with4.7 million.
Southeast Asia saw nearly 43 million local threats targetingbusinesses in 2023. Singapore recorded a 67% increase in local incidents, from300,000 in 2022 to 500,000, the lowest in the region.
Statistics on local infections of user computers are an importantindicator of the overall cyberthreat landscape, and include objects thatpenetrated the target computer through infecting files or removable media, orinitially made their way onto the computer in non-open form (for example,programmes in complex installers or encrypted files).
These statistics are produced by Kaspersky’s scans of files on thehard drive at the moment they were created or accessed and of removable storagemedia.
Adrian Hia, managing director for Asia Pacific at Kaspersky, said:“Southeast Asia shows solid potential to become a major manufacturing hub globally.The region is also consistent in charting steady digital economic growththrough the years.
“To be able to continue these feats, organisations, whetheroperating on IT or OT [operational technology] systems, should build theircyberdefences against sophisticated attacks that use the same old techniquesand tactics.”
Protection against local attacks not only requires a securitysolution capable of treating infected objects but also a firewall, anti-rootkitfunctionality and control over removable devices, the company said, adding thatby scanning systems with robust security solutions, organisations could preventthe spread of malware through files or removable media./.
VNA
