Kaspersky’s general manager for Southeast Asia Yeo Siang Tiong said the strategies have been carefully designed to strengthen the nation’s cyber defence system and underscore the country’s firm commitment to building a secure and trustworthy cyberspace.

Drive-by downloads occur when users visit compromised websites that automatically download malware without their knowledge or consent, while social engineering attacks take place when cybercriminals deceive users into downloading malicious files by disguising them as legitimate programmes, often through phishing emails, fake websites, and misleading advertisements.

Malaysian users are facing a high level of cyber threats, which may coincide with the rapid expansion of data centres in the country.

Vietnam’s cybersecurity landscape improved in the second quarter of 2024 compared to a year earlier, but unrelenting vigilance should be a priority to prevent threats, according to global cybersecurity and digital privacy company Kaspersky.

Businesses in Vietnam were the worst affected with 17.1 million incidents, according to data from global cybersecurity company Kaspersky.

Finance and healthcare are the top two sectors experiencing cyber attacks in Malaysia this year despite growing resilience and awareness among financial institutions, said Kaspersky Southeast Asia general manager Yeo Siang Tiong.

Global cybersecurity company Kaspersky thwarted an enormous number of email phishing attacks in Vietnam throughout 2022, for both individual and enterprise users, according to a recent company report.

Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky recently described Vietnam as the safest country in Southeast Asia against the threat of financial attacks targeting banks, payment systems and online stores.

Along with a surge in the number of mobile phone users accessing the Internet, there has been an increase in the number of mobile malware targeting Vietnamese users, according to the global cybersecurity company Kaspersky.

Security experts from the Global Research & Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky Russian, a multinational cyber security and anti-virus provider, have revealed potential threats to cyber security in Southeast Asia countries this year.

The number of detections of web threats in Vietnam fell by more than 30 per cent last year compared to 2018, with 75 million different Internet-borne cyberthreats, according to Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) 2019.

The spread of WannaCry ransomware has been wreaking havoc across the world, and several Vietnamese businesses and agencies are advised to take cautions.