THE Philippines slipped two notches down from its previous ranking in the latest top 10 global list of countries with the most web-borne threats based on a report from cybersecurity company Kaspersky.
In the 2020 Kaspersky Security Network report, Kaspersky solutions installed in computers of Filipino users detected 44,420,695 different internet-borne threats last year. The report also revealed that more than four in 10 (42.2 percent of) online users in the country were almost infected with web threats in 2020, putting the country at sixth place globally.
The number of web threats in the country is about 37.19 percent more in 2020 compared to 27,899,906 web threats (44.4 percent) detected in 2019, placing the country fourth overall in that year.
Web threats are attacks via browsers which is the basic method for cybercriminals to spread their malicious programs.
Kaspersky experts observed two noticeable trends behind the change of percentage users attacked by web threats, not just in the Philippines, but for countries all over the world. It noted that the number of users that encounter web miners has been reduced by one and a half times and the number of users that encounter web skimmers has increased by about 20 percent.
Web skimmers are those that steal credit card data of customers from websites.