Experts say that in each attack, typically hackers will attack networks or systems, steal personal or sensitive information and then demand ransom to return or unlock them. that information. Although experts say that companies should not pay a ransom to hackers because this action helps to foster legal violations, according to Mimecast statistics, 54% of the companies have paid the ransom. Of these, 76% of the companies got their data back, while 24% couldn’t get it back. Prior to this report, since last year, many entities including major Australian companies have reported being attacked by hackers. The recent victim is Nine Network Television, which makes some programs unable to broadcast as usual. Previously, the Australian National Assembly’s computer network was also attacked a number of times. In response to this situation, Australia’s Cybersecurity Center issued recommendations and procedures to instruct entities on how to secure cyber security. At the same time, experts believe that regular software updates as well as the use of multi-factor authentication are also useful measures for security in a cyberspace environment./.

One of the drawings was published by the Revil hacker group, threatening Apple. According to technology experts, it is likely that the group of hackers above got the data after they attacked the network on Quanta Computer, an Apple partner in the production of Macbook. Initially, Quanta Computer was targeted by the Revil team with a $ 50 million ransom request, but the deal broke down then made Apple the victim of hackers. To prove it, the hacker group has posted a few screenshots showing technical drawings of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro and accompanied by a liquidity request before May 1. If Apple doesn’t respond, they’ll reveal more data after each day of transaction delay. It is known that, in addition to Apple, Quanta Computer is also a partner in manufacturing equipment for many other technology companies such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, BlackBerry, Lenovo, LG … so it is likely that hackers will not stop at demanding. Apple ransom. Currently, the Revil hacker group has not given specific numbers on the ransom they demanded on Apple as well as Apple without any official response.

In particular, the number of attacks on Vietnamese enterprises fell sharply, from 536.6 thousand cases in 2019, to 204.7 thousand cases in 2020. This pulled Vietnam’s ranking to 11 worldwide. , improved from the 7th place in 2019. In Southeast Asia, Singapore remains the country with the least number of detected attacks, ranking 78 globally. However, out of six Southeast Asian countries, Singapore is the only one experiencing an increase in the number of ransomware infection attempts. Number of detected cases increased from 2,275 in 2019 to 3,191 in 2020. Number of attacks on SMEs detected by Kaspersky in Southeast Asian countries. Although Indonesia still ranks 5th globally in terms of the number of ransomware incidents detected, the country has dropped from 1,158,837 cases in 2019 to 439,473 cases in 2020. This downtrend also coincides with export. currently in other countries in the region including the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand. China remains at the top of the list for the number of ransomware cases globally in both 2019 and 2020. Meanwhile, Brazil and Russia have swapped the 2nd and 3rd place in the rankings, with Brazil currently ranked 2nd by 2020. Ransomware is designed to infect organizations and individuals’ computers, encrypt the internal data and block access to the computer. The attackers will then request a fee from the victim in exchange for re-activation of the system. Ransomware attacks may be on the decline, but Kaspersky has been warning businesses of all sizes in every sector about the growing activity of ‘Ransomware 2.0’, also known as software. targeted extortion. In the new method, the criminals do not ask for ransom to unlock the data, they threaten to publicly disclose the data they hold, adding pressure to the victims to pay the ransom to protect their reputation. .