Phishing incidents continue to skyrocket in Southeast Asia. The latest data from the global cybersecurity company Kaspersky shows that it took only six months this year for cybercriminals to exceed the total number of phishing attacks they made the year before against users in the region.
From January to June this year, the company says its anti-phishing system blocked more than 12.1 million malicious links in Southeast Asia. That is 1 million more than the total number of phishing attacks detected in 2021.
Phishing, a type of social engineering attack, remains one of the key methods used by attackers to compromise their targets -- both individuals and organisations. It works as it is done on a large scale where cybercriminals send massive waves of emails purporting to be from legitimate companies or personalities to promote fake pages or infect users with malicious attachments.
