The Philippines ranks second – after Mongolia – among countries most plagued by web threats worldwide, according to a 2022 report global cybersecurity company Kaspersky.
MANILA, Philippines – When hackers targeted independent Filipino news outlet Bulatlat.com, flooding its website with a torrent of rogue traffic, staff had to rely on digital forensics experts in Sweden to track down the perpetrators.
Governments are often behind such online threats in nations including Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar and the Philippines, said Bangkok-based digital rights group, DigitalReach, a global phenomenon dubbed digital authoritarianism. The hacking on Bulatlat five years ago, which the newspaper says was “targeted, deliberate and well-organized,” was the first known distributed denial-of-service attack against a Filipino media organization.
Access Now put them in touch with Sweden-based Qurium Media Foundation, where digital forensics specialists were able to trace the intrusion toThe companies, which were also linked to DDoS attacks on three other independent news websites in the Philippines, agreed to a financial settlement in the civil case brought against them.For digital rights activists, however, the case was a relatively rare success story of holding hackers to account.
Some are offering digital security training for individuals at risk on safeguards such as digital encryption, virtual private networks and safe applications. Stronger cross-border cooperation, as in the Bulatlat case, is also seen as vital for preserving internet freedom.
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