Kaspersky Blocks 250K Ransomware Attacks in APAC
Threat actors have been busy during the first half of 2026, waging various attacks against companies and individuals in Asia Pacific (APAC). Recent data from Kaspersky showed a slight increase in backdoors, more than 2 million password stealers, and a quarter of a million ransomware attacks foiled in the region from January to June. Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) also warns against the rising attacks on supply chains, globally.
The cyber threat landscape across APAC remained highly active in the first half of 2026, with Kaspersky detecting and blocking 75 million attacks originating from online resources. The findings also revealed that 3.4 million backdoor attacks, 2.4 million password stealer attacks, and 250,000 ransomware incidents were prevented during the six-month period.
The data are from Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) analysed by Kaspersky GReAT.
“While we observed slight declines in some attack categories during the first half of 2026, this...
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