This week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a warning that hackers are increasingly targeting companies pursuing treatments for the novel Coronavirus. As a result, the FBI warned, “Now is the time to protect critical research you’re conducting.” Of course, it’s not just researchers experiencing a surge in COVID-19-related cyberattacks. Other healthcare facilities, including hospitals, testing ...
If we backtrack to December of 2019, many of the Cybersecurity pundits were already making their predictions for what the threat landscape would hold for 2020. Many had agreed that threat variants such as Ransomware, Cryptojacking, Phishing, would all continue in different forms. Another fear that was starting to take some grip revolved around potential ...
Fraudsters and APT Gangs Hit Remote Workers With Phishing, Spyware, Ransomware Cybercrime groups and nation-state hacking gangs are continuing to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic to further their aims, U.K. and U.S. security agencies warn. "APT groups and cybercriminals are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic as part of their cyber operations," Britain's National Cyber Security Center and the U.S. ...
Every day, there are newer threat variants coming out, and the most recent ones appear to be related to Social Engineering attacks and what is known as “Zoombombing”. This is a new techno jargon term which simply means an uninvited participant to enter into your Zoom meeting, and literally crash it. In fact, it has ...
Introduction The world today is far different than it was one month ago. For example, here in the United States, we were at all time stock market highs, and unemployment was at its lowest peak, right around 3.5%. We had the longest economic boom period, lasting about 11 years in length. But, with the advent of ...
Cybercriminals and nation-state actors alike are leveraging the COVID-19 pandemic to weasel personal informational, financial data, dollars and access to systems from their victims, from consumers to healthcare organizations and supply chain companies, the FBI warned this week in a pair of alerts. For the third time in as many months, the FBI called out state-sponsored ...
Introduction One of our previous articles examined the Windows Virtual Desktop, also known as WVD for short. It is a unique way of deploying any physical computers and workstations from On Prem into the Cloud. There are many strategic advantages to this, some of which include the following: Fixed and affordable pricing: You don’t have to ...
The world is slowing down during this COVID-19 pandemic. Wall Street is being hit hard. People are no longer going out. We’re told to quarantine or self-isolate and not engage in groups. You can bet there’s one group that’s not slowing down at all. In fact, they’re probably working overtime while the rest of us have ...
Google, Microsoft, Twitter. Hitachi, Apple, Amazon. Chevron, Salesforce, Spotify. From the UK to the US, Japan to South Korea, these are all global companies that have, in the last few days, rolled out mandatory work-from-home policies amid the spread of Covid-19. And it’s realistic to assume that shifting to the ‘home office’ will become the new ...
Introduction What was once a tranquil calm here in the United States just a few weeks ago has now turned into almost public hysteria. We have seen volatility in the financial markets at unprecedented levels, and the American economy is systematically closing itself down from the outside world by making employees work from home for the ...
Urgent And Critical Protections We Are Urging All Clients To Have In Place NOW To Protect Their Bank Accounts, Client Data, Confidential Information And Reputation From The Tsunami Of Cybercrime
