Local Threats Soar, Vietnam And Indonesia Become The Main Target Of Malware

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JAKARTA - Kaspersky Statistics show companies in Southeast Asia face more than 24 million incidents on devices in the first six months of 2024.

The statistics are generated by scanning files on the hard drive when the file is created or accessed, as well as scanning results of removable storage media.

Usually, the incident on the device, or called a local incident, is caused by malware spreading through a removable USB drive, CD and DVD, or by files that originally log into the computer.

In Semester I of this year, during the period January to June this year, Kaspersky's business solution succeeded in detecting and blocking 24,289,901 related threats.

The increasing digitization of financial systems, e-commerce, and other industries has increased the number of internet users and expanded the surface of attacks on cybercriminals, said Yeo Siang Tiong, General Manager for Southeast Asia in Kaspersky.

Overall, organizations in Vietnam and Indonesia experienced the highest number of local threat incidents, each recording 10.531.086 and 7.954.823.

Thailand and Malaysia are in third and fourth place with 2,650,007 and 1,965,270. Then Singapore with 501,148 cases, while the Philippines faced 687,567 cases.

In addition, Yeo also emphasized that the lack of awareness of the best practices and the use of various levels of security protection also contributed to the high number of threats and attacks facing businesses.

He explained that protection against attacks originating from removable devices or files that are not open requires strong security solutions capable of dealing with infected objects.

Therefore, Yeo advised all companies to conduct regular computer scans to search for viruses and malware to prevent the spread of the threat.