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On Tuesday, researchers reported two malware campaigns connected to the coronavirus: One that uses a phishing email to spread Remcos RAT and malware payloads and the other using a Microsoft Office document to drop a backdoor onto a victim's computer. One campaign is in the form of a phishing email with a PDF offering coronavirus safety measures, according to research from ZLab-Yoroi Cybaze.
The plug was pulled on HIMSS20 - slated to take place in Orlando, Florida March 9-13, after the latest advisory and report updates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization, HIMSS said in a statement issued on Thursday afternoon. HIMSS, the largest annual health IT conference, in recent years has typically attracted more than 40,000 attendees and with more than 1,300 exhibitors.
Buchman said tech supply chains are particularly vulnerable to air cargo changes and because many airlines have canceled flights around the world, this will create a down-chain gap that will become more apparent as manufacturing speeds up. The supply chain management company Anvyl has employees in China and said that his entire team has been quarantined twice.
Of course, the WHO website wouldn't ask for your email password - it's a public information website, after all, not a webmail service, so it has no need for your email details. The crooks were hoping that because their website looked exactly like the real thing - in fact, it contained the real website, running in a background browser frame with the illicit popup on top - you might just put in your email details out of habit.
What do the numbers and trends mean? Pandemic expert Regina Phelps analyzes the latest developments. Phelps, the founder of Emergency Management & Safety Solutions, is warning organizations to be prepared for "The long haul" - a sustained health crisis that could extend for as long as 12 months, she believes, with impacts on everything from global supply chains and regional economies to individual organizations' work-at-home practices.
When entire regions are quarantined, home-bound people are overloading local switches, reducing international call quality and interrupting connectivity. This is having a measurable, negative impact on the audio quality of international calls and could be a harbinger of things to come.
It's 3% of our global GDP. So, in essence, the coronavirus just does a couple of things for how we react as human beings to a crisis. So you just need to think about the awareness of your employees of these types of things and that in a situation like this, they are very likely to click information about what's really going on with the company, with the external world around you and get information about the coronavirus, that malicious actors use to basically penetrate your network or defraud you of your money.
Karen Roby interviewed a cybersecurity expert about a different threat than COVID-19 brings.
As a result, thousands of events around the world are being canceled, postponed or turned into online-only events in the wake of the coronavirus and the looming threat of COVID-19. Shopify Unite 2020 developers conference was set for May 6-8 in Toronto and now the in-person portion is canceled and it will be an online-only event.
That's why, following the World Health Organization having declared COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern, Facebook late last month said it would help by trying to limit the spread of nonsense on its platform, including, for example, snakeoil posts about the fake miracle bleach cure. As Business Insider reported, the platform plans to ban ads that promise to cure the contagious illness or that try to "Create a sense of urgency" about it.