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COVID pandemic causes spike in cyberattacks against hospitals, medical companies

On Wednesday, IBM released the company s annual X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, which analyzed data from the previous year to track the evolution of new threats, malware development, and cyberattacks.  The 2021 index includes some notable trends, perhaps the most significant being how many threat actors pivoted their campaigns toward organizations involved in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic during 2020.  According to IBM researchers, attacks against organizations crucial to coronavirus research and treatment experienced double the usual rate of attacks in 2020. These entities include hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturers, medical companies, and energy firms involved in the COVID-19 supply chain.  IBM believes that this change in focus is due to cyberattackers banking on the fact that these organizations could not and still cannot afford any downtime that could impact COVID-19 programs. As a result, victims may be more likely to pay up, for example, when ransomware i

COVID-19 vaccine supply chain is vulnerable to cyber attacks, says security expert | Day 6 with Brent Bambury | Live Radio

COVID-19 vaccine supply chain is vulnerable to cyber attacks, says security expert Play Segment9:02 As the first COVID-19 vaccine began making its way out to Canadians this week, security researchers warned that the vaccine s complicated supply chain is vulnerable to cyber attacks designed to steal intellectual property, destroy the vaccines or simply undermine people s confidence in it. Nick Rossman, Global Threat Intelligence Lead with IBM s cybersecurity arm, Security X-Force, says his team has already discovered a series of cyber attacks aimed at disrupting the vaccine rollout. Aired: Dec. 19, 2020

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