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    Kaspersky recommends seven guidelines to protect against cyber threats

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    Global cybersecurity company, Kaspersky has recommended seven guidelines that will help organizations and individuals to protect against cyber threats in the face of threats, which are classified as ‘local’, which means they are detected either on users’ devices or on portable data storage devices, such as flash drives.

    The seven guidelines, according to Kaspersky are:

    • Do not follow dubious links from letters, messages in instant messengers or SMS
    • Regularly install updates for the operating system and applications
    • Install applications only from official stores
    • Use complex and different passwords for accounts
    • Regularly copy important data from your device to the cloud, to a USB flash drive or hard drive
    • Do not give applications access to those functions that they do not need
    • Install a reliable security solution such as Kaspersky Internet Security

    Apart from these guidelines, Kaspersky also encouraged organisations to provide training to improve cyber literacy among their employees. It said, for example, the automated platform Kaspersky ASAP helps to develop safe behaviour skills and form sustainable cybersecurity habits. The solution allows the company to assess the current knowledge of an employee in the field of cybersecurity, and in accordance with this, determine the set of skills that the employee needs, depending on job duties and risk profile, and build a timetable for the program.

    Meanwhile, Kaspersky has addressed the common misconception that the most dangerous threats to encounter on modern users’ digital journeys are likely to appear during Internet surfing. The company said, based on the most recent analysis of cyberattacks in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria within 2020 by Kaspersky experts, users are in fact more likely to face malware-related attacks hidden within their devices.

    It disclosed that in 2020, 25% of Kaspersky private users in South Africa, 40% in Kenya and 38% in Nigeria were attacked by such threats. To provide a comparison, web attacks only affected 9% of users in South Africa, 11% in Kenya and 8% in Nigeria.

    “The cyber threat landscape across Africa is constantly evolving,” says Denis Parinov, a cybersecurity expert at Kaspersky, explaining that a few years ago, there were much more drive-by attacks – cases when different malicious software is downloaded and being run while the user simply browses the Internet.

    He argued that nowadays, most of the web-threats “stays in browser”: they specialize in content replacement, browser locking or clickjacking, online-skimming, cookie stuffing.

    According to Kaspersky, when looking at corporate users in these regions, the numbers are similar: 23% of corporate users in South Africa, 29% in Kenya and 35% in Nigeria encountered such local threats within 2020.

    Unfortunately, there has been an increase in the sophistication of such threats – which may be hiding on the user’s device within a seemingly legitimate file for a while, to fly under the radar, and only strike later.

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