A report by Kaspersky Labs for the second quarter of 2010 indicated that the Philippines was knocked off the 19th place for being the most attacked country in the world by cybercriminals, replaced by Bangladesh.
Cybercriminals have somewhat lost some interest in using the Philippines as a host for their Internet attacks lately. Kaspersky ranked the Philippines in 18th place in the second quarter this year for hosting malicious applications, up from eighth place in the first quarter.
Another report by Symantec showed that the Philippines is ranked 20th among all countries where attacks are originating. Overall, the Philippines shares only 1 percent to being the source of global cyberattacks, though it ranks sixth in the Asia Pacific region.
But this does not mean the Philippines is far from being safe.
In fact, Kasperksy Labs Antivirus Analyst Yuri Nemestnikov said that the situation of Internet security in the Philippines is far from stable. There is no explanation as to reasons for the Philippines sliding out of favor to be host for Internet attacks.
“It happened because of falling popularity of servers located in the Philippines for hosting malware. If we will look at the quantitative indicators, there was a three times decrease in the number of attacks from servers located in the Philippines.”
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