In this second part of our blog on the situation in Myanmar, we look at the developments that have taken place since the military coup a month ago. The violence being perpetrated by security forces against the thousands of demonstrators across Myanmar has been getting worse: at least 54 people have reportedly been killed and …
This month, Cyjax CISO, Ian Thornton-Trump, and Head of Editorial, Tristan de Souza, are joined by Joe Frederick, EMEA Operations and Security Intelligence Manager at A2 Global Risk, our geopolitical intel partners. The guys cover a recent US military report on North Korea’s physical and cyber capability, the Belarusian election, corporate (lack of) responsibility in …
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COVID-19 Cybersecurity Update A study conducted by VMware Carbon Black has revealed that enterprises are reporting an increase in cyberattacks since restrictions on free movement have been implemented. There was a 92 per cent increase in COVID-19-inspired malware. Singapore saw a 43 per cent increase in the number of attacks; 67 per cent of them …
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COVID-19 Cybersecurity Update The FBI has reported on the most common types of fraud during the pandemic. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received nearly as many complaints in the first half of 2020 (about 320,000) as in the entirety of 2019 (about 400,000). Criminals continue to peddle counterfeit personal protective equipment (PPE) and fraudulent …
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COVID-19 Cybersecurity Update The UK’s fraud and cybercrime reporting site, Actionfraud, has released figures stating that so far 2,057 victims have lost a combined total of over £4.6 million to coronavirus-related scams. Different types of scams have been used to steal money from users, including, courier fraud, online shopping and auction fraud, computer software service …
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COVID-19 Cybersecurity Update Since January, there has been a boom in threat actors capitalising on the COVID-19 pandemic – ZScaler reported a 30,000 per cent increase in phishing, malicious websites, and malware in this period. As the pandemic has continued, however, and lockdowns have affected cybercriminals as well as law-abiding citizens, there has been a …
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The full Cyber Threat Brief for Critical Infrastructure can be downloaded here. There has been a significant uptick in cyberattacks exploiting fear of the coronavirus to compromise victims. Notably, however, there has not been a surge in the total number of attacks. Instead, existing cybercriminal operations have been rethemed with COVID-19 lures. Attackers have not …
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Zoom’s meteoric rise in popularity following lockdowns due to COVID-19 is well-documented. From an average of 10 million daily users in January and February 2020, the platform hit more than 300 million per day in April. Governments around the world, corporations in all sectors, educational institutions – from primary to university – and more, have …
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COVID-19 cybersecurity update In the face of the continuing coronavirus pandemic, individual cybercriminals and groups have re-geared their operations to use coronavirus lures. Recent research revealed a 148 per cent month-on-month increase in ransomware attacks from February to March, alongside a spike in attacks on financial institutions. Over a dozen state-sponsored threat groups have been …
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COVID-19 Cybersecurity Update The government of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), a province in western Germany, has reportedly lost between €31.5 million up to €100 million in emergency aid following a COVID-19 phishing campaign. The threat actors behind the campaign created fake copies of the official website used to distribute COVID-19 financial aid by the NRW Ministry …
