APAC continues to be an exciting region of huge growth, evolution and change; increasing its vulnerability to organized, global cyber attacks. This is particularly true given APAC has a particularly strong cross-border footprint, with a high proportion of digital transactions criss-crossing country boundaries. Cross-border transactions are considered riskier by most organizations, driven by the fact that they are far more likely to be automated bot attacks than domestic transactions, and attract higher instances of location spoofing, as fraudsters attempt to hide behind VPNs and proxies to mask their true location.

This is ThreatMetrix’s Report of events from the second quarter of 2016.

This report from ThreatMetrix compiles the data from their 2016 Cybercrime report to provide insight into the threats in the European sector.

The ThreatMetrix Cybercrime Report: Q1 2016 is based on actual cybercrime attacks from January 2016 – March 2016 that were detected by the ThreatMetrix Digital Identity Network (The Network) during real-time analysis and interdiction of fraudulent online payments, logins and new account applications.

Creating)Value)and)Managing)Risk)in)the)World)of)PSD2,“a"white"paper"developed"by"Aite"Group” in close cooperation with ThreatMetrix, provides insight into the key provisions of the revised & Payment(Service(Directive (PSD2) legislation and its impact on market practices.

This infographic offers illustrations that reveal data from the holiday shopping trends of 2018.

This report offers insight into global threats that occur during the Holiday shopping season.

The third quarter of 2017 saw an increase in the number of malicious apps flooding the mobile marketplace, the continued issues of imitation and trojan apps in official app stores, and the emergence of the WireX mobile botnet. In this report, they’ll give an overview of these mobile threats, as well as emerging trends they anticipate will be prevalent in Q4 and beyond to help you protect yourself and your customers.

RiskIQ uses its repository of scanned mobile application stores to perform analysis on threat trends in the mobile application space. The fourth quarter of 2017 showed a 37 percent decrease in blocklisted apps over Q3. Key threat trends include brand imitation, phishing, malware, and bankbot attacks on cryptocurrency users.

In this report, we’ll give an overview of the recent mobile threats RiskIQ detected in Q2 of 2017, as well as emerging trends we anticipate will be prevalent in Q3 and beyond to help you protect yourself and your customers.

RiskIQ uses its repository of scanned mobile application stores to perform analaysis on threat trends in the mobile application space. The first quarter of 2018 showed a 43 percent decrease in blocklisted apps over Q4. Key threat trends include brand imitation, phishing, malware. A spike in apps targeting cryptocurrency and high-profile threats from nation-state actors.

From the report, “With so much of our personal information now flowing through mobile applications, has our security awareness kept pace? Have consumers adopted best practice behaviors or are they leaving themselves vulnerable to cyber attacks? To better understand consumer behavior, RiskIQ commissioned Ginger Comms² to survey 1,000 US and 1,000 UK consumers aged 16 to 60+, specifically focusing on smartphone apps. The survey was conducted between February and March 2017.”

In this report, IntSights looks to identify which mobile platforms are gaining traction and may be the future backbone of the illegal cyber-economy. The data in this report will help you understand how dark web communication is changing with mobile adoption and how this impacts the way security teams monitor dark web activity. By reading this report, security teams can better prepare for this shift and be better resourced to evolve with it

From the report, “With data drawn from our ThreatCloud World Cyber Threat Map and our experience within the cyber research community, we will give a comprehensive overview of the trends observed in the categories of Cryptominers, Ransomware, Malware techniques, Data Breaches, Mobile and Nation State cyber attacks. We will then conclude with a review of the predictions made in our 2018 Security Report and assess to what extent these proved accurate. Along the way we will also provide cutting edge analysis from our in-house experts to arrive at a better understanding of today’s threat landscape.”

From the report, “Without trust, the future of our digital economy and its nearly limitless potential is in peril. Piecemeal efforts to address cybersecurity issues—including the Internet’s inherent flaws, vulnerabilities from the Internet of Things (IoT), identity and data veracity and increasing digital fragmentation—have fallen short. Through their decisions above ground on industry-wide governance and their business architecture and technology infrastructure below ground, however, CEOs can have the influence necessary to collaboratively address these overarching issues.”

A new survey by UBM and Vera Security explores the use of encryption and access controls to understand how organizations currently use these technologies and to identify their top priorities in file security. The results of this research establish the reasons why encryption isn’t more widely used and considers how organizations can use this technology effectively to ensure the protection of their data.

From the report, “For our fifth annual survey, we asked nearly 2,000 respondents globally across a range of industries, company sizes, and roles—about the challenges and opportunities presented by the ongoing process of digital transformation. This survey provides a uniquely comprehensive analysis of the trends shaping the application landscape—and how IT organizations are transforming to meet the ever-changing demands of the digital economy.”

Osterman Research conducted an in-depth survey of decision makers and influencers. To qualify for the survey, individuals had to be knowledgeable about the security operations in their organizations and their organizations had to have at least 1,000 employees. A total of 404 surveys were conducted during June and July 2018. This white paper discusses the results of that research and our analysis of the survey data.

From the report, “As the report that follows describes, SophosLabs has been observing a small but growing number of criminals forced to resort to a variety of manual hacking techniques – previously the purview of esoteric, targeted attackers – just to maintain their dishonorable income streams. The downside is that it’s much more challenging to halt these hybridized threats using conventional methods, but it also means there are fewer criminals competent enough to conduct them, and we keep driving up the cost of their operations. It’s a Darwinian process, and the sort of shift in attacker/defender economics we’ve been striving to achieve for a long time. We consider that a victory, and the start of a trend of attacker disruption that we intend to continue driving.”

Ponemon Institute is pleased to present the findings of Assessing the DNS Security Risk, sponsored by Infoblox. The purpose of this study is to understand the ability of organizations to assess and mitigate DNS risks. As part of the research, an online index has been created to provide a global measure of organizations’ exposure to DNS security risks and assist them in their response to DNS security risks.

A survey of financial services executives responsible for digital security measures at their firms (see Methodology) sheds light on the industry’s objectives for digital channels, perceptions about the scale of the threat posed by fraud and a range of vectors for attack, and confidence in existing defenses.