Kaspersky Lab offers insight into emerging cyberthreats in Malaysia and Asia region at Cyber Insights 2018

Kaspersky Lab, the renowned cybersecurity provider today held the Malaysia leg of its first multi-city security roadshow which will span a dozen cities in the region and which will act as a platform for customers, analysts and cybersecurity experts to share their thoughts on combating emerging threats in the region.

“With the emerging threats, Kaspersky Lab believes that organisations need to build an adaptive security framework that is scalable and flexible to meet and new and complex security challenges.  Often we hear about cybersecurity trends, seldom we talk about the threats. It is also worrying that most companies are unable to respond in time, but rather after the attacks have occurred. During the roadshow, our team will show you the emerging threat landscape internationally and for the region,” said Mr. Yeo Siang Tiong, General Manager, SEA, Kaspersky Lab at the forum.

Mr. Yeo Siang Tiong, General Manager, SEA, Kaspersky Lab at the Cyber Insights 2018 forum held in Malaysia.

Kaspersky Lab Cyber Insights 2018 began in July and will continue through to October 2018. During the forum, Mr. Vitaly Kamluk, Director of GReAT, APAC, Kaspersky Lab shared with forum attendees insights on the current emerging cybersecurity threats in the region and, in particular, Malaysia. As far as Malaysia stands, it is in 31st position worldwide with 31,679,240 web threat detections as detected by Kaspersky Labs. In terms of local threats, it is in 96th position worldwide with 50,004,618 detections.

Vitaly also shared interesting insights such as the fact that even the iOS platform, once thought inviolable was also subject to hacking as well as users inadvertently download compromised versions of the Safari browser that skim their personal and financial details.

One particularly interesting detail Vitaly also shared is that threat actors are now increasingly indulging in false flag operations, planting fake details in their payloads that point the finger at other nationstates to possibly raise regional tensions or otherwise distract investigators by going on a wild goose chase.

Mr. Simon Piff, Vice President of IDC Asia/Pacific’s IT Security Practice Business also shared IDC perspective on building cyber defense and resilience. “In a studies done for Kaspersky Lab, 64% of respondents were unable to define advanced persistent threat (APT).  Alarmingly, 51.5% said they would need days or weeks or months to respond to the attacks.” Simon said. For more details, swing by www.kaspersky.com