As if there wasn’t enough to worry about these days, cyber attacks have taken a sharp uptick since the COVID-19 pandemic began this year. From January to March, AT&T Alien Labs Open Threat Exchange (OTX) saw 419,643 indicators of compromise (IOC) related to COVID-19, including a 2,000% month-over-month increase from February to March. Cybercriminals are taking advantage of the shift to remote working, increasing their volume of attacks by nearly 40% in the last month. Home routers have been hijacked. COVID-19-themed phishing attacks have jumped 500%. And most of 4,000 new COVID-19 domains are suspected of criminal intent.
Companies large and small are in a bad spot on this one. Asking staff to come to the office could worsen the health crisis. Having them work at home creates a vastly increased attack surface that cybercriminals can easily exploit. And in the meantime, trying to highly secure every employee’s…
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Posted by: Roger Thornton |
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May 04, 2020 at 09:08PM
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