Geopolitical and Cybersecurity Weekly – 4 May 2020

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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Geopolitical and Cybersecurity Weekly – 27 April 2020

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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Global and Cybersecurity Weekly – 20 April 2020

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 …

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