Security News > 2020 > April > Cybersecurity During COVID-19

One, employees are working from their home networks and sometimes from their home computers.

Employees working from home are going to save data on their own computers, where they aren't protected by the organization's security systems.

Tricks like business email compromise, where an employee gets a fake email from a senior executive asking him to transfer money to some account, will be more successful when the employee can't walk down the hall to confirm the email's validity - and when everyone is distracted and so many other things are being done differently.

A new wave of cyber-attacks is targeting Federal Agency Personnel, required to telework from home, during the Novel Coronavirus outbreak.

Business email compromise scams - where crooks impersonate a CEO or other senior staff member and then try to trick workers into sending money to their accounts - could be made easier if staff primarily rely on email to communicate while at home.

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