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A five-phase strategic and systematic approach to strengthen the resilience of organizations' current business models is key to business continuity during the coronavirus pandemic, according to Gartner. "Companies tend to have traditional business continuity strategies and plans that focus on the continuity of the resources and processes but omit the business model," said Daniel Sun, research vice president at Gartner.
Commentary: COVID-19 has laid bare our need to take a new, more data-centric approach to security in light of more people working from home. Even before the coronavirus outbreak, there was a need to reconsider traditional approaches to security.
Social distancing has affected consumer shopping patterns, and a TransUnion survey found that 22% of Americans said they've been targeted by digital fraud related to COVID-19. Consumers are greatly reliant on online retailers during the coronavirus pandemic, and businesses must be armed to combat fraud, while making sure the company's web and mobile platforms are bug-free.
IR providers face a unique challenge when approached by these organizations since, due to the Coronavirus mass quarantine, conducting incident response engagements by arriving physically to the customers' offices is impossible. Cynet 360, a tool of choice for a number of IR providers, enables responders to compensate on the lack of physical access with the ability to conduct a full IR operation remotely by seamless and rapid remote deployment, complete visibility into the attacked organization's environment, automated threat detection, and integrated MDR services.
The home confinement of hundreds of millions of people worldwide to halt coronavirus contagion has presented intelligence services with a challenge: monitoring an explosion in internet traffic, above board and not, even as their own capacity is reduced. In a bid to curb virus contagion among their ranks, intelligence services are alternating teams at the office, like many other essential businesses and services continuing to function amid the unprecedented global lockdown.
The latest malicious COVID-19 campaigns are repurposing conventional phishing emails with a coronavirus angle, says security trainer KnowBe4. With the coronavirus upper most in our minds, bad actors have been deploying different waves of COVID-19 phishing emails, each with its own unique approach, according to KnowBe4.
The Department of Justice has raised its first federal court action against online fraud relating to the coronavirus pandemic, on Sunday taking steps to shutter a fraudulent website that claimed to give away free coronavirus vaccines. The website was live as of March 21, according to the DoJ; but as of Monday, the website is currently down.
The Department of Justice has raised its first federal court action against online fraud relating to the coronavirus pandemic, on Sunday taking steps to shutter a fraudulent website that claimed to give away free coronavirus vaccines. The website was live as of March 21, according to the DoJ; but as of Monday, the website is currently down.
While the HawkEye keylogger has been in continuous development since 2013, it did see an ownership change in December 2018 and has been particularly resurgent since then. "The current developer of the HawkEye Reborn keylogger/stealer is continuously adding support for different applications and software platforms to facilitate the theft of sensitive information and account credentials," researchers told Threatpost last year.
While the HawkEye keylogger has been in continuous development since 2013, it did see an ownership change in December 2018 and has been particularly resurgent since then. "The current developer of the HawkEye Reborn keylogger/stealer is continuously adding support for different applications and software platforms to facilitate the theft of sensitive information and account credentials," researchers told Threatpost last year.