Data from Kaspersky shows that email phishing attacks in Malaysia remain at an alarming rate.
According to Cybersecurity Malaysia, 4,741 cyber threats were reported in Malaysia last year. It had recorded 456 fraud cases as of February 2023. To raise the red flag further, a total loss of US$5.9 million was already recorded by The National Scam Response Centre as of February 2023., managing director for the Asia Pacific at Kaspersky, said Malaysia remains in the top three amongst its Southeast Asian peers in terms of malicious emails blocked by Kaspersky.
“As bad actors continue to be creative to hack our human minds through topics we care about, we need to continuously raise our awareness and really act on protecting our devices against cyber threats,” Hia said. The company said in 2022, pages impersonating delivery services had the highest percentage of clicks on phishing links blocked by its solutions . Online stores , which were popular with attackers during the pandemic, occupied second place. Payment systems and banks ranked third and fourth, respectively.
The component detects all pages with phishing content that the user has tried to open by following a link in an email message or on the web, as long as links to these pages are present in the Kaspersky database.
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