Turkmenistan Becomes The Country With The Most Number Of Users Attacked By Local Threats

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JAKARTA - Kaspersky's latest report states that policies that allow employees to use their personal devices for work or Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) can actually pose a cyber threat to companies.

Because according to Kaspersky, employees' personal devices connected to the company's network may not have adequate protection against cyber attacks that will occur.

army and virus files are the cause of most of the company's local threat incidents, which usually spread through removable USB drives, CDs and DVDes, as well as other offline methods.

This report shows that Turkmenistan is the country with the most users being attacked by local threats, which is 67.4 percent. Then followed by Afghanistan (64.6 percent), and Yemen (64.6 percent) in second and third positions.

Furthermore, there are positions 4 to 10, Tajikistan (63.9 percent), Myanmar (60 percent), Uzbekistan (59 percent), Burundi (58.2 percent), Bangladesh (58.1 percent), Algeria (57.6 percent), Belarus (57.2 percent).

This year, Kaspersky products detected 51,261,542 local incidents on KSN participant computers in Indonesia. This figure is down 9.21 percent compared to the same period in 2022 of 56,463,262 detections.

Thus, the data also places Indonesia in its 66th position globally, as a country with the most users being attacked by local threats.