(Photo courtesy ofKaspersky) MANILA - From January to December 2021, Kaspersky products used in the Philippines detected and foiled more than 50 million web threat attempts, according to statistics from the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN). The latest KSN report released Monday showed the Philippines moved two places up in Kaspersky's global ranking or fourth overall behind Belarus, Algeria, and Kazakhstan. In a nutshell, this means Filipinos who have been mostly stuck at home surfing, working, banking, or studying via the web during the entire second year of the pandemic have had a heightened exposure to further dangers of the Internet. KSN is the cloud-based threat intelligence service of Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky. From 2017 to 2021, in the malware-detection history of KSN, the cyberthreats detected in the Philippines have gone up sharply by 433 percent, according to a news release. The monitored cyberthreat attempts logged on devices of Kaspersky users in 2017 were