Firms in Vietnam face most offline cyberattack threats in SE Asia in 2023
Friday, April 05, 2024, 16:44 GMT+7
Enterprises in Vietnam encountered 17.1 million offline cyberattack threats in 2023, the most in the Southeast Asian region, according to statistics announced on Thursday by cybersecurity firm Kaspersky.
The firm stated that nearly 43 million offline cyberattack threats targeted Southeast Asian businesses last year.
Vietnam was followed by Indonesia with 16.4 million, Thailand with 4.7 million, and Malaysia with 2.5 million.
Firms in Singapore faced 500,000 offline cyberattack threats in 2023, the lowest in the region.
Adrian Hia, managing director for Asia-Pacific at Kaspersky, said Southeast Asia holds high potential to become a global manufacturing hub and the region has maintained impressive digital economic growth over the past many years.
To boost the growth, organizations need to build their cyber defense systems and utilize common techniques and tactics to fight sophisticated cyberattacks.
Preventing offline cyberattack threats requires both a security solution capable of treating infected subjects and a combination of a firewall, anti-rootkit functionality and control over removable devices, Hia added.
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