Cyber attacks are expected to escalate after cybercriminals started targeting business-to-business (B2B) infrastructure in the second quarter of the year with three million malware incidents detected in the Philippines, a global security firm said. The use of WannaCry in mass mailings proves that cybercriminals are very attentive and reactive to international events,” Darya Gudkova, spam analyst expert at Kaspersky Lab, said in a statement. “Cybercriminals have started to focus more on the B2B sector, seeing it as lucrative. Ved of Frost & Sulllivan noted that China will be the world leader in the B2B eCommerce market with a $1.25 trillion in sales by 2025. “KSN is a complex, distributed infrastructure that processes depersonalized cybersecurity-related data streams from millions of voluntary Kaspersky Lab product users around the world,” it said.

Source: Manila Times September 01, 2017 17:26 UTC