Posts Tagged ‘Kaspersky’
APAC region emerging as key strategic growth engine for Kaspersky amidst regional headwinds
Amidst a challenging economic climate, cybersecurity company Kaspersky has become stronger for it with an expanded presence in the Asia Pacific region. In a recent statement, Kaspersky has shared that they have pivoted towards markets where its leadership in transparent, intelligent-driven and enterprise-ready cybersecurity solutions remain highly sought after, chief among them the Asia Pacific…
Read MoreKaspersky highlights key pitfalls and bottlenecks in building Security Operations Centres (SOC) for APAC organisations
Organisations that reach a measurable level of size and influence as well as those that operate in high-risk digital environments such as financial institutions and government linked organisations will inevitably encounter heightened cybersecurity risks. Rather than piecemeal efforts, organisations ideally need to establish a Security Operations Centre (SOC) though it is something easier said than…
Read MoreKaspersky shares 6 vital security tips to stay safe when shopping online
Times have changed and people are shopping more than ever online which represents another avenue for cybercriminals and other malicious threat actors to both defraud or gain access to vital information from unsuspecting shoppers. To discover awareness on security and safety practices when shopping online, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky conducted a study with 3,000 respondents from…
Read MoreSimon Tung appointed as General Manager for Kaspersky ASEAN AND AEC
One of the world’s foremost cybersecurity organisations in the world has just announced that they have appointed Simon Tung as General Manager for their ASEAN and AEC regions. “The digital potential of ASEAN countries is immense, but it is contingent on trust and security. Kaspersky has an unparalleled global expertise in threat intelligence and a…
Read MoreKaspersky SAS 2025 – Sergey Anufrienko talks about the risks of vehicle cyberattacks
At Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit (SAS) 2025, Sergey Anufrienko, Vulnerability Research Group Manager, Kaspersky ICS CERT talked about the theoretical possibilities for vehicle hacks. We have a word with Sergey about how close we are to that possibility happening in real life… [Hitech Century] We often think of cybersecurity as something primarily for phones and…
Read MoreKaspersky SAS 2025 – BlueNoroff APT group GhostCall and Ghosthire cyberattack campaigns leveraged AI-driven tools to target victims
Alongside deep intelligence about the connections between the Dante spyware and the Memento Labs AP group, experts at Kaspersky SAS 2025 also shared indepth detail about recent activity attributed to the BlueNoroff APT group who have leveraged AI to target cryptocurrency organisations and blockchain developers and executives via two sweeping cyberattack campaigns designated as GhostCall…
Read MoreKaspersky SAS 2025: GReAT discovers link with Dante spyware and Memento Labs
At the Kaspersky Security Analyst 2025 summit in Thailand, researchers from the elite Kaspersky Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) revealed that Memento Labs, a successor to the HackingTeam group, is linked to a wave of cyberespionage attacks including Operation ForumTroll that occurred earlier in March 2025. For the uninitiated, Operation ForumTroll was a sophisticated…
Read MoreKaspersky issues warning against using AI to generate passwords
Seeing how persistent hackers are these days and the fact that the best practice for creating a legitimate password requires a combination of numbers, letters, alphanumeric symbols as well as upper and lower case, people are now resorting to using large language models (LLM) like ChatGPT, DeepSeek and the like to actually help generate their…
Read MoreKaspersky says supply chain attacks an emerging cybersecurity threat
An inadvertent software update by US-based cybersecurity company Crowdstrike on 19 July 2024 onto PCs utilised by their clients brought a bluescreen of death to over 8.5 million devices with a reboot death loop that brought the world to its knees for days. At the recent Kaspersky Cybersecurity 2024 summit in Sri Lanka, Kaspersky shared…
Read MoreMalaysia fifth most affected APAC country by cyberattacks in 2024 says Kaspersky cybersecurity threats 2024 report
At the Kaspersky Cybersecurity Weekend summit in Sri Lanka, the global cybersecurity company shared more about the cybersecurity threat landscape and the most dangerous threats for the year in their latest Kaspersky cybersecurity threats 2024 report. Ironically, Malaysia is one of the countries in APAC that experienced the most cyberattacks for the duration of January…
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