4.8M cyberattacks detected in WFH setups in PH
About 4.8 million cyber-attacks were detected in work-from-home(WFH) setups in the Philippines from January to June this year, according to a report by cybersecurity firm Kaspersky.
This latest figure is 98.41% higher than the total attacks that happened in the same period last year, only amounting to more than 2.4 million.
Based on the research, the highest attacks were detected during February and March, with over 1.7 million for both months.
Kaspersky stated that the type of attack they monitored is called a brute-force attack where a cyber criminal systematically tries all possible combinations of characters in a password until the correct one is found.
The security firm disclosed that the majority of attacks were assessed among remote working laptops with Microsoft’s proprietary protocol called Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).
In a statement, Kaspersky general manager for Southeast Asia Yeo Siang Tiong said that the mass transition to remote working “has given cyber attackers this logical conclusion that poorly configured RDP servers would surge” leading them to boost their attacks during this period.
Siang Tiong added that businesses and employees should secure their WFH setup better as “attacks on remote-access infrastructure, including collaboration tools, are unlikely to stop any time soon.”
