By Anthony Berrios
Blog Post #11
With the newly introduced pandemic around the world that is the coronavirus a.k.a COVID-19, people across the world have gone into hiding watching the news unfold from their couches. Grocery stores began to get flooded with customers buying as much as the could as the infected counts rose as the days passed. The virus has impacted much more than just peoples health, the stock market, and businesses across the world to name a few. Coronavirus has also be “weaponized” by Chinese hackers to send out malicious attacks in the form of disguised Coronavirus information messages and apps. According to Check Point, their research team had managed to intercept a target cyber attack by an Chinese APT Group on a public sector entity of Mongolia. It was found out that the attack had leveraged the corornavirus pandemic. The APT supposedly sent out two documents in which one was COVID-19 related and the other was an impersonation of the Mongolian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the form of press briefings. Those documents contained unique remote access malware. A reporter for Forbes by the name of Thomas Brewster also found that cyber criminals have been “rapidly registering vast numbers of potentially malicious websites and sending out masses of scam emails as they try to make money from the pandemic. This situation is rather alarming but unfortunately not surprising. In times of crisis, all current and potential criminals see these types of situation as an opportunity to make money illegally by taking advantage of the situation. Not only do people around the world need to be careful of who they come in contact with in person, but also be mindful of the increased cyber risks that could be faced online during this worldwide epidemic.
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