The age of ransomware

Malaysia under cyber attack media briefing from Kaspersky.

Malaysia has the dubious distinction of being number 25 on the list of countries that is the source of the most web infections, according to global security firm Kaspersky Lab.

For the period between June to Aug this year 283,779 web infections were traced back to Malaysia, accounting for 0.21% of the global total, said Kaspersky lab director for the Asia Pacific research team, Vitaly Kamluk.