Kaspersky: APAC cyber threats remain high, 75 million attacks blocked in six months
- ID
- 15061
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 18 Aug 2026, 11:33 AM
- Fetched
- 18 Aug 2026, 12:28 PM
- Provider
- SoyaCincau
- Category
- malaysia-tech
- Original URL
- https://soyacincau.com/2026/08/18/kaspersky-apac-75-million-attacks-blocked-h1-2026/
- Source URL
- https://soyacincau.com/feed/
Summary
- Score
- 5.5
- Created
- 18 Aug 2026, 12:28 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developerssaas_foundersai_ml_learners
What happened
Kaspersky blocked 75 million attacks across APAC in H1 2026, including 250,000 ransomware, 3.4 million backdoor, and 2.4 million password-stealer attacks. The company warns threat actors are increasingly using AI to automate reconnaissance and accelerate malware development, and that nearly one in three organisations globally experienced a supply chain incident in the past year.
Why it matters
If you build or deploy software in APAC, the supply chain attack stat is the actionable signal: scrutinise third-party update mechanisms and dependencies you trust by default, since the cited eScan and Notepad++ incidents show attackers compromising legitimate update infrastructure. The AI-accelerated reconnaissance point means intrusion detection assumptions based on human-speed attack timelines are increasingly stale.
Discussion angle
Given that 1 in 3 orgs hit a supply chain incident, what's the minimum viable dependency and update-verification hygiene for a small Malaysian SaaS team that can't afford a dedicated security function?