{"id":249874,"date":"2026-05-19T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/upguards-asx-200-cybersecurity-report-1-in-10-asx-200-companies-already-infected-by-dark-web-infostealers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T19:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:05:16","slug":"upguards-asx-200-cybersecurity-report-1-in-10-asx-200-companies-already-infected-by-dark-web-infostealers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/upguards-asx-200-cybersecurity-report-1-in-10-asx-200-companies-already-infected-by-dark-web-infostealers\/","title":{"rendered":"UpGuard&#8217;s ASX 200 Cybersecurity Report: 1 in 10 ASX 200 Companies Already Infected by Dark Web Infostealers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/upguards-asx-200-cybersecurity-report-225000231.html\">UpGuard&#8217;s ASX 200 Cybersecurity Report: 1 in 10 ASX 200 Companies Already Infected by Dark Web Infostealers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/upguards-asx-200-cybersecurity-report-225000231.html\">https:\/\/uk.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/upguards-asx-200-cybersecurity-report-225000231.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 18:50:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"uk.finance.yahoo.com\">uk.finance.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Although there was a slight improvement in the ASX 200&#8217;s security rating, it was driven by post-incident security fixes, not proactive strategy<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\"><span class=\"legendSpanClass\">HOBART, Australia<\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">May 20, 2026<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0UpGuard, a leader in cybersecurity and risk management, released its annual ASX 200 Cybersecurity Report, which measures the cyber risk exposure of Australia&#8217;s largest listed companies. Based on daily scanning of billions of data points, UpGuard benchmarked external security posture on a 0\u2013950 scale, finding the average score for the ASX 200 was 728.5 in 2025, equating to a B rating, and showing a 1.58 percent improvement from 2024. However, the report also found that 10 percent of the ASX 200 had active, verified infostealer infections. In addition, the research identified a trend where security scores typically remain stagnant until a major global security issue, such as the CrowdStrike outage, triggers a brief spike in remediation activity. However, these reactive security improvements often subside within months as organizational priorities shift.<\/p>\n<p>     UpGuard      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Key Findings from the 2025 Report:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"yf-1p2hw41\">\n<li class=\"yf-1p2hw41\">\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Identity is the primary attack vector: 1 in 10 ASX 200 companies had high confidence that credentials were circulating in infostealer logs, with 71 percent of these infections concentrated in the largest organizations.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"yf-1p2hw41\">\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Supply chain cascade risk: The majority of ASX 200 rely on the same core SaaS platforms, creating a cascade effect where a single vendor vulnerability can exploit hundreds of companies.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"yf-1p2hw41\">\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Encryption is the weakest link for the second year running: Encryption is the lowest-scoring technical category, leaving data privacy at significant risk.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"yf-1p2hw41\">\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Sector leaders and laggards: Information Technology (776) and Utilities (769) lead the index, while the Materials sector (673) continues to rank lowest in overall security posture.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"yf-1p2hw41\">\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Attack surface volatility: In every security category, nearly a third of companies ended up in a worse position than in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>    &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/upguards-asx-200-cybersecurity-report-225000231.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UpGuard&#8217;s ASX 200 Cybersecurity Report: 1 in 10 ASX 200 Companies Already Infected by Dark&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/en\/prnewswire.com\/fd2175dcf3793f388956db2b44bb63c6","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[36,57,27],"class_list":["post-249874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-infostealer","tag-security","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249876,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249874\/revisions\/249876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}