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PH is ranked fourth among the countries most frequently targeted by cyber threats.

MANILA, Philippines β€” According to statistics from the Kaspersky Security Network, Kaspersky products deployed in the Philippines discovered and stopped more than 50 million web threat attempts in 2021. (KSN).

The Philippines rose two places in Kaspersky’s global ranking, to fourth overall, behind Belarus, Algeria, and Kazakhstan, according to the latest KSN report released Monday.

In a nutshell, this indicates that during the second year of the epidemic, Filipinos who were largely locked at home surfing, working, banking, or studying via the internet were more vulnerable to new Internet hazards.

Kaspersky’s cloud-based threat intelligence service, KSN, is a cloud-based threat intelligence service.

According to a news release, cyberthreats recorded in the Philippines increased by 433 percent from 2017 to 2021 in the malware-detection history of KSN.

In 2017, there were 9,487,775 cyberthreat attempts registered on Kaspersky users’ devices, compared to 50,544,988 in 2021.

In only 2021, Kaspersky’s detection systems found an average of 380,000 new malicious files each day, up to 20,000 from the previous year.

Most threats (91 percent) used to come in the form of WindowsPE files, a file type exclusive to Windows operating systems.

Last year, however, thieves became more aggressive than ever before in distributing risks related to the Linux operating system.

As a result, the quantity of Linux malware and undesirable software detected increased by 57%.

“Working and going to school during the pandemic has been made much easier thanks to the Internet.” During lockdowns, the Internet has often given a momentary escape from reality. This is true not only for Filipinos but for everyone in the world,” said Kaspersky’s Southeast Asia general manager, Yeo Siang Tiong.

Browser-based assaults are known as web threats. Drive-by downloads and social engineering are commonly used by cybercriminals to deliver malware on Internet users’ devices.

When you visit an infected website, you get a drive-by download infection, which is employed in the majority of attacks.

Cybercriminals deploy file-less malware in such attacks, which is the most dangerous method of infecting a device since it is so sophisticated and difficult to detect and counter.

Social engineering, on the other hand, is an attack in which a computer user downloads a harmful file. When fraudsters dupe a victim into thinking she’s downloading a legitimate program, this happens.

“However, we have seen ongoing actions from cybercriminals honing their skills throughout this period till now that we are healing and adapting to the new normal.” People will be more vulnerable to cyber-intrusion as a result of this, unfortunately. We can’t avoid using the Internet, therefore we urge Filipinos to exercise extreme caution and develop a strong habit of practicing cyber-hygiene. “These basic practices remain the same, and they include scanning devices for viruses on a regular basis, resetting passwords, keeping apps, software, and operating systems up to date, and erasing your hard drive,” added Yeo.

Threat data from participants’ PCs in the Philippines, as well as data from other Asia Pacific nations, is handled in Kaspersky’s two data centers in Zurich, Switzerland.

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