{"id":17374,"date":"2025-04-17T10:04:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T02:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/?p=17374"},"modified":"2025-04-17T10:04:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T02:04:48","slug":"kaspersky-reports-a-153-rise-in-ransomware-attacks-on-malaysian-businesses-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/2025\/04\/17\/kaspersky-reports-a-153-rise-in-ransomware-attacks-on-malaysian-businesses-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaspersky reports a 153% rise in ransomware attacks on Malaysian businesses in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"newsTextDataWrapInner\">\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR (April 16): Malaysian businesses recorded a sharp rise in ransomware activity last year, with attempts increasing by 153% year on year, according to cybersecurity firm Kaspersky.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsTextDataWrapInner\">\n<p>Ransomware, as the name suggests, is malicious software designed to block access to a computer system or encrypt its data until a sum of money (a ransom) is paid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsTextDataWrapInner\">\n<p>In a statement on Wednesday, the digital privacy company said that there were a total of 12,643 ransomware cases in Malaysia in 2024, representing a jump from the 4,982 incidents recorded in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-inpage\" class=\"inPageAd\" data-google-query-id=\"CMyBrsP73YwDFWyNrAIdnMIcfA\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/9457649\/Inpage_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsTextDataWrapInner\">\n<p>In March, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim revealed that the digital system of Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd was attacked by hackers demanding a ransom payment of US$10 million (RM44.39 million).<\/p>\n<p>Click here to<a href=\"https:\/\/theedgemalaysia.com\/node\/751731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR (April 16): Malaysian businesses recorded a sharp rise in ransomware activity last year, with attempts increasing by 153% year on year, according to cybersecurity firm Kaspersky. Ransomware, as the name suggests, is malicious software designed to block access to a computer system or encrypt its data until a sum of money (a ransom) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disaster-recovery-cybersecurity-news-malaysia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17376,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17374\/revisions\/17376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}