Vietnam logs 17.1 million business cyberthreats in 2023

Business solutions from Kaspersky blocked a total of 42,700,000 local infections last year.

Overall, businesses in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Thailand experienced the most number of local threats in 2023. Vietnamese businesses saw the highest number of these threats in Southeast Asia (17.1 million), followed by Indonesia on 16.1 million incidences and Thailand with 4.7 million.

Even though global threats were on the rise over the past year (individual and business segments combined), all countries in Southeast Asia registered an insignificant decline in the number of local threats detected and blocked on corporate devices with Kaspersky business solutions, except Singapore.

Singapore logged a 67 per cent on-year increase, from 300,000 local incidents in 2022 to 500,000 last year.

Local threats in Southeast Asia in 2023

Statistics on local infections of user computers are an important indicator of the overall cyber threat landscape. They include objects that penetrated the target computer through infecting files or removable media or initially made their way onto the computer in non-open form (for example, programmes in complex installers, encrypted files, among others).

These statistics are produced by Kaspersky security solutions scans of files on the hard drive at the moment they were created or accessed, as well as the results of scanning removable storage media.

“Southeast Asia shows a solid potential to become a major manufacturing hub globally. The region is also consistent in charting steady digital economic growth through the years. To be able to continue these feats, organisations, whether operating on IT or Operational Technology systems, should build their cyberdefences against sophisticated attacks that use the same old techniques and tactics,” said Adrian Hia, managing director for Asia Pacific at Kaspersky.

Protection against local attacks not only requires a security solution capable of treating infected objects but also a firewall, anti-rootkit functionality and control over removable devices. By scanning systems with robust security solutions, organisations can prevent the spread of malware through files or removable media.

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