Vietnam tops Asia Pacific economies with most malicious emails
Vietnam topped the list of five Asia-Pacific economies with the most spam emails detected with a total of 3.09 million emails, global cybersecurity company Kaspersky revealed.
Kuala Lumpur (VNA) – Vietnam topped the list of five Asia-Pacific economies with the most spam emails detected with a total of 3.09 million emails, global cybersecurity company Kaspersky revealed.
It was followed by Malaysia (2.36 million), Japan (1.86 million)🌱, Indonesia (1.80 million) and Taiwan (♔1.45 million).
Morethan half of the malicious emails circulated across the Asia-Pacific were detectedin the five above economies, with 61.1% of the total malicious emails detected by Kaspersky MailAntivirus.
Kaspersky Global Research and Analysis Team’s seniorsecurity researcher Noushin Shabab highlighted that the Asia-Pacific regionaccounts for almost 24% of the total global malicious emails detected thisyear.
The extensive use of online services such as online shoppingand other online platforms for day-to-day activities here also makesindividuals more susceptible to falling victim to scams, she said.
She noted that there are three mainfactors — its population, the high adoption of e-services, and the pandemiclockdowns — caused the bulk of spam emails targeting the region.
These malicious emails were mostly sent by cybercriminals in the form of mass email to reach more users, with the intention ofmaking financial gains for the attackers, she added./.♕
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