Karpersky: Being tech-savvy doesn’t make you immune to cyber threats
- ID
- 37278
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 20 Oct 2026, 11:38 AM
- Fetched
- 20 Oct 2026, 12:09 PM
- Provider
- SoyaCincau
- Category
- malaysia-tech
- Original URL
- https://soyacincau.com/2026/10/20/cyber-risks-across-professions-kaspersky-study/
- Source URL
- https://soyacincau.com/feed/
Summary
- Score
- 5.0
- Created
- 20 Oct 2026, 12:10 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersvibe_codersai_agent_userssaas_founders
What happened
A Kaspersky survey reported by SoyaCincau says technical workers face fewer routine scam calls and spam, but a slightly higher overall incident rate: 86% versus 84.1% for non-technical workers. Technical workers also reported more malware (11.3% vs 8.5%), AI-driven fraud and deepfakes (9.0% vs 6.3%), and smart-device attacks (6.8% vs 4.1%); IT security staff logged 85.6% overall despite encountering basic spam and scam calls at roughly 25% below average. After incidents, 44.7% stopped answering unknown callers and 36.5% avoided untrusted websites, but only 30.1% enabled multi-factor authentication and 24.3% installed security software.
Why it matters
For developers and AI-agent users, the concrete point is that technical fluency changes the threat mix toward malware and AI-driven fraud/deepfakes rather than removing risk; since only 30.1% enabled MFA and 24.3% installed security software after an incident, builders should decide now to make MFA and security tooling defaults in their own workflows and products.
Discussion angle
If technical users report higher exposure to AI-driven fraud and deepfakes (9.0% vs 6.3%), what concrete guardrails should AI-agent builders add—human confirmation steps, out-of-band verification, or MFA-by-default—and why did only 30.1% enable MFA after an incident?