AI Weekly Malaysia

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: 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.