Covid

LONDON (REUTERS) – Companies around the world have moved more of their operations online, plan to reduce office space and have made recruiting and retaining staff their top priority since the coronavirus pandemic struck, a survey showed on Tuesday (Aug 25). A survey from accounting firm KPMG showed 80 per Read more…

Transcripts reveal University of California at San Francisco’s weeklong negotiation to free its ransomware-locked servers. The haggling worked, sort of. The negotiator entered the chatroom four days after the attack. Hackers had locked down several servers used by the epidemiology and biostatistics department at the University of California at San Francisco, Read more…

Food insecurity for U.S. households last week reached its highest reported level since the Census Bureau started tracking the data in May, with almost 30 million Americans reporting that they’d not had enough to eat at some point in the seven days through July 21. In the bureau’s weekly Household Read more…

As with the dot-com bubble, an abundance of venture capital funding has fuelled speculation and encouraged investors to make bets on the next tech giant, says Professor John Colley. WARWICK: A handful of technology companies have benefited from coronavirus. Amazon has profited handsomely, as have streaming and video conferencing platforms Read more…

Microsoft Takes Down Domains Used In COVID-19-Related Cybercrime Microsoft took control of domains used by cybercriminals as part of the infrastructure needed to launch phishing attacks designed to exploit vulnerabilities and public fear resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The threat actors who controlled these domains were first spotted by Microsoft’s Digital Read more…

Three Times More Phishing Attacks In Singapore In 2019, Twice As Many During Covid-19 Pandemic SINGAPORE – The number of phishing attempts to trick users to give up personal information almost tripled last year from the year before, and doubled during the months when people had to stay home to Read more…

New Ransomware Masquerades As COVID-19 Contact-Tracing App On Your Android Device The malware surfaced just days after health officials in Canada announced the launch of a tracing app in the fight against COVID-19. A new strain of ransomware is being deployed in attacks created off the back of the release Read more…

Design Software Unicorn Canva Hits $6 Billion Valuation In $60 Million Raise Amid Covid-19 Boom Its design software business booming in a work-from-home pandemic environment, Canva has raised new funding that values the startup at $6 billion. Canva announced on Monday that it had raised $60 million in new funding Read more…

GLOBAL COVID 19-RELATED PHISHING CAMPAIGN BY NORTH KOREAN OPERATIVES LAZARUS GROUP EXPOSED BY CYFIRMA RESEARCHERS Reporting Date: 18 June 2020 Assessment Period: 1 to 16 June 2020 Subject: Hacker groups are planning a large-scale phishing campaign targeted at more than 5M individuals and businesses (small, medium, and large enterprises) across six countries Read more…