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Kaspersky company blocked as many as 85,560 attacks
spyware
targeting various organizations in Indonesia from January to June 2025. This equates to an average of 475 attacks per day.
This data also shows a spike of 64.2 percent compared to 52,705 attacks in the same period last year.
This global cybersecurity company noted that the sharp increase in targeted spyware attacks hitting the corporate world in Indonesia is a warning to companies in the country.
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Spyware is a type of software that is secretly installed on users’ computers to collect their data.Unlike malware, spyware usually does not damage the operating system, programs, and files.
Spyware runs on the device to monitor activity (e.g., keystroke logging, screenshots).Spyware can be installed online, but monitoring occurs locally.
Step by step, spyware will perform the following actions on your computer or mobile device starting to infiltrate, monitor and capture data, send stolen data.In short, spyware communicates private and confidential information about you to attackers.
The information collected may contain reports about your online browsing habits or purchasing activities, but the spyware code may also be modified to record more specific activities.
The data compromised by spyware often includes the collection of confidential information such as:
• Login credentials – password and username
• Account PIN
• Credit card number
• Type on the monitored keyboard
• Tracked browsing habits
• Stolen email addresses.
Recent years have also seen the rise of commercial spyware activity, a form of “legal malware” sold to governments and law enforcement, which has become an urgent threat to organizations around the world.
Commercial spyware functions like malware developed by private companies, designed to secretly monitor devices by stealing messages, intercepting calls, tracking their location, and erasing any trace of their existence.The installation often exploits zero-click vulnerabilities, meaning victims don’t even need to click anything for infection to occur, according to Kaspersky, Monday (10/11).
Ensuring full protection against spyware attacks generally has its challenges, however, organizations can at least make things difficult for potential attackers.Kaspersky suggests the following recommendations:
● Update software regularly on all your devices.First and foremost: operating system, browser, and messaging apps
● Don’t click on suspicious links – one visit to a website may be enough to infect your device
● Use a VPN to disguise your internet traffic – this will protect you from redirects to malicious sites when browsing HTTP pages
● Restart the device periodically.Often, spyware cannot survive for long on an infected system, so restarting the device will help get rid of it
● Install a reliable security solution on all your devices
● Use the latest Threat Intelligence information to stay alert to the Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) actually used by threat actors.
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