News & Reviews:   malware Malaysia

Kaspersky Lab has introduced free ransomware decryptors for both businesses and individuals can use. To those of you unfamiliar, ransomware is a type of malware that takes over your files and holds them “hostage” until you pay a sum of money to have them released. This has actually happened to a large company in our own shores quite recently and Kaspersky has taken initiative to stop this from happening again with this decryptor.

Hackers and cybercriminals around the world have been quite busy in 2014, even here in Malaysia. We've seen quite a few defaced Malaysian government websites and other targeted attacks both for malicious intent as well as to steal data. According to a new report from Trend Micro tabled by Victor Lo, Regional Consulting Director, SEA Region, Trend Micro, this will continue in 2015 as they predit even more targeted attack campaigns particularly for retail and financial institutions. The Trend Micro report titled "Trend Micro Security Predictions for 2015 and Beyond: The Invisible Becomes Visible" includes the following highlights:

1. More cybercriminals will turn to darknets and exclusive-access forums to share and sell crimeware
2. Increased cyber activity will translate to better, bigger, and more successful hacking tools and attempts
3. Exploit kits will target Android, as mobile vulnerabilities play a bigger role in device infection
4. Targeted attacks will become as prevalent as cybercrime
5. New mobile payment methods will introduce new threats
6. We will see more attempts to exploit vulnerabilities in open source apps
7. Technological diversity will save IoE/IoT devices from mass attacks but the same won’t be true for the data they process
8. More severe online banking and other financially motivated threats will surface