Following on the heels of the New York Department of Financial Services February 25, 2022 letter to regulated entities regarding the “Escalating Situation in Ukraine and the Impact to.
February 17, 2021
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Last summer, an employee at a New Jersey-based company used a personal USB device to download something off the company system and, without meaning to, injected malware that resulted in a ransomware attack on the whole system.
Perhaps he should have known better: according to Norris McLaughlin cybersecurity law Chair Rebecca Warren, he was the company’s head of IT. Ninety percent of cyber attacks are occasioned by human error, Warren said as a panelist on NJBIZ Cybersecurity Panel Discussion on Feb. 16.
Though that statistic hasn’t changed, the number of such occasions has. There’s been an “exponential increase” in phishing and cyber attacks since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Warren said.
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In April of this year, which seems far longer than eight months ago, we posted about an alert from federal agencies warning that cyber threat actors were exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to fuel phishing and other attacks. Those efforts have continued throughout the year with attackers now retooling their messaging around the COVID-19 vaccine. Criminal threat actors know millions are clamoring for information about the vaccine and are working to meet that demand with false information, largely through phishing attacks.
According to an alert from the New Jersey Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Cell (NJCCIC):
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
In April of this year, which seems far longer than eight months ago, we posted about an alert from federal agencies warning that cyber threat actors were exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to fuel phishing and other attacks. Those efforts have continued throughout the year with attackers now retooling their messaging around the COVID-19 vaccine. Criminal threat actors know millions are clamoring for information about the vaccine and are working to meet that demand with false information, largely through phishing attacks.
According to an alert from the New Jersey Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Cell (NJCCIC):
COVID-19 vaccine-themed phishing emails may include subject lines that make reference to vaccine registration, information about vaccine coverage, locations to receive the vaccine, ways to reserve a vaccine, and vaccine requirements.