Asia Pacific (APAC) region remains as one of the top targets for Ransomware 2.0 attacks globally in 2020, with increasing Ransomware Evil (REvil) and JSWorm attacks, says global cybersecurity company, Kaspersky. Its lead malware analyst, Alexey Shulmin, said out of 1,764 Kaspersky users targeted by the REvil group, 635 were companies and individuals from the APAC region. "Vietnam, mainland China and India were the top three most attacked countries in the APAC region, followed by Indonesia and Korea. "Other countries in the top 10 REvil attacks in APAC include Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Australia," he said in a webinar entitled 'Emergence of Ransomware 2.0 in the APAC region', today. Shulmin said REvil attacks in the APAC region have increased significantly beginning July 2020 with 290 registered users being attacked in the month as compared to only four users attacked in the previous month. The biggest industries targeted by the REvil attackers were the engineering and manufacturing sectors, comprising 30% of the attacks, followed by the financing sector (14%), professional and consumer services (9%), legal, information technology (IT) and telecommunications (7%), as well as food and beverages (7%).

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