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A report released Wednesday by fraud prevention company Bolster looks at some of the most popular scams seen during the first quarter of 2020. As the coronavirus took hold, around 30 percent of the confirmed phishing and counterfeit pages were related to COVID-19.
Cybercriminals have been creating phishing emails, suspicious websites, downloadable apps and files, and other malicious content all geared toward trapping people curious or anxious about the pandemic. These cyberattacks encompass malicious websites with the word "Corona" or "Covid" in the domain name, files with "Corona" in their name, and files attached to coronavirus-related phishing emails.
Cybercriminals have been busy devising email campaigns that take advantage of the coronavirus outbreak. In a blog post published Monday, Lastline said that it's detected a variety of threats centered around COVID-19, and many of these threats are infostealers.
Most of the networks Facebook took down last month were still trying to grow their audience or had a large portion of phony engagement on their pages - engagement that came from the networks' own, fake accounts. Last month, Facebook pulled down a total of 1,887 misleading accounts, pages and groups which it traced to eight networks.
In a report released Wednesday, AdaptiveMobile Security illustrates the expansion of SMS spam campaigns related to COVID-19 across the US and Canada. In one of the SMS spam campaigns, the spammer tells the recipient that his coronavirus stimulus payment is waiting for his acceptance, which must be given by a specific date.
Since February, spam exploiting the novel coronavirus has jumped by 4,300% and 14,000% in the past 14 days, according to IBM X-Force, IBM's threat intelligence group.
Bad actors matched their cyber attack strategy with the increasing uncertainty of the coronavirus epidemic, according to a new analysis from Mimecast. Over the 14 weeks that Mimecast analyzed, detections increased during seven weeks, decreased during five weeks, and showed no change during two weeks.
Foreign state hackers are trying to brute-force their way into pharmaceutical and medical research agencies hunting for a COVID-19 vaccine, British and American infosec agencies are warning. The National Cyber Security Centre and America's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency cautioned of a "Password spraying" campaign targeting healthcare and medical research organisations.
As a result, CIOs and CISOs face a double challenge on the cyber risk front - apart from the new risks that the mass transfer of employees working remotely brings, capturing the management mindshare for further investments in security becomes harder than ever. The Definitive Corona Cyber Security for Management PPT template provides security executives with an easy and intuitive tool to present management their existing security posture and translate it to tangible business risk, as well as making the case on how to address gaps if such exist.
As a result, CIOs and CISOs face a double challenge on the cyber risk front - apart from the new risks that the mass transfer of employees working remotely brings, capturing the management mindshare for further investments in security becomes harder than ever. The Definitive Corona Cyber Security for Management PPT template provides security executives with an easy and intuitive tool to present management their existing security posture and translate it to tangible business risk, as well as making the case on how to address gaps if such exist.