As measures put in place to combat and slow the spread of COVID-19 become a part of everyday life, Cyjax CISO, Ian Thornton-Trump, and Head of Editorial, Tristan de Souza are virtual once again. The seventh instalment of the Cyjax Geopolitical Podcast covers the “shocking” (in Ian’s words) story of over 30 million Chrome users …
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COVID-19 Cybersecurity Update The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has warned users about scam coronavirus (COVID-19) contact tracing texts. There has been an increasing number of SMiShing messages asking users to click a malicious link. The FTC claims that clicking the link will download software onto the device, enabling scammers access to personal and financial …
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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 …
COVID-19 Cybersecurity Update COVID-19 continues to dominate the cybersecurity landscape with several national security bodies releasing warnings about scams and malicious operations using the pandemic as a lure. US-CERT, CISA, and the UK NCSC issued a joint security advisory outlining an increase in COVID-19-related themes in SMiShing, phishing for credential theft, and malware delivery. The …
