How Covid-19 has worsened corporate cybersecurity woes

  • Date: 26-Sep-2020
  • Source: Gulf Business
  • Sector:Technology
  • Country:GCC
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How Covid-19 has worsened corporate cybersecurity woes

A n authentic-looking email arrives with the subject line, Covid-19.

The sender appears to be the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, a trustworthy name in healthcare. There's either an attachment or a link that promises "further information“ or such.

Such emails seem completely genuine to the uninformed eye. Only with deeper analysis does a malware payload hiding behind the link or attachment become apparent, capable of giving hackers access to the organisation's network and placing the company's entire data at risk.

Such cybersecurity nightmare scenarios have confronted many organisations in the wake of Covid-19. Cybercriminals went to work in the days and weeks following the pandemic, creating bogus domains, which they used to send phishing emails promoting either fake treatments for the coronavirus or some other prevention protocols, observes Tamer El