Thai Firms Face Rising Cyberthreats

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - A survey on cybersecurity has revealed that 88% of operational technology (OT) firms in Thailand suffered cyber-intrusions within the past 12 months.

 

In March of this year, the "Global 2022 State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity Report" by Fortinet, a global cybersecurity business, polled over 500 OT professionals worldwide, including those in Thailand.

 

Peerapong Jongvibool, vice president for Southeast Asia and Hong Kong at Fortinet, stated that as the IT security landscape becomes more complex, networked OT systems have also become susceptible to these expanding risks.

 

Peerapong stated that with 93% of agencies globally experiencing intrusion, the issue substantially impacts businesses’ productivity and must be addressed immediately. He noted that malware, ransomware, and hackers were the top three intrusions against Thai businesses.

 

According to Fortinet, 89% of Thai OT enterprises facing assaults were back online within a few hours, while the remaining 1% required days, weeks, or months. In addition, 71% of Thai OT businesses encountered operational disruptions that endanger physical safety, productivity, and income.

 

The poll also found that 18% of Thai OT firms have between one thousand and ten thousand IP-enabled devices in operation, a severe cyber security weakness that makes it easy to launch an attack.

 

Source: https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG220908132232348

 

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[ChrisY1]

Thai company web sites are pretty awful. Badly put together...many have menus that just don't work....and rarely does anyone from the company respond to online enquiries.

There is no surprise that many sites are easily hacked into....including government sites.

[lujanit]

1 hour ago, ChrisY1 said:

Thai company web sites are pretty awful. Badly put together...many have menus that just don't work....and rarely does anyone from the company respond to online enquiries.

There is no surprise that many sites are easily hacked into....including government sites.

Especially when they use pirated copies of Windows XP.

[Cake Monster]

1 hour ago, lujanit said:

Especially when they use pirated copies of Windows XP.

If they are using pirated Windows XP and 7, the chances are that much of the Installed Software on those machines is also Pirated.

Combine this with a passion to use Baidu and not google and there is a recipe for disaster.

[Photoguy21]

It is hardly surprising since much of the software used by companies is no longer supported and I would guess in many cases is not even a legal product. I have seen it in hospitals that are using Windows 98 (who uses that any more???) and it says "This is illegal software".

With such activity as pirated software what would you expect? This is one reason why your software is regularly updated as portions of it are found to be entrances from hackers.