Cyber attacks are expected to escalate after cybercriminals started targeting business-to-business (B2B) infrastructure in the second quarter of the year with three million malware incidents detected in the Philippines, a global security firm said.

“During the second quarter of the year, we have seen that the main trends in spam and phishing attacks have continued to grow. The use of WannaCry in mass mailings proves that cybercriminals are very attentive and reactive to international events,” Darya Gudkova, spam analyst expert at Kaspersky Lab, said in a statement.

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