DOUBLE WHAMMY: Pandemic threatens both physical, online world as cybercriminals persist on exploiting COVID-19 to trick users, o
With more than two million cases globally, the coronavirus pandemic has undeniably created a massive disruption and continues to pose a real-life threat to humans from around the world. But has this invisible risk crossed the physical world and reached the online domain? Findings from the researchers of global cybersecurity company Kaspersky suggest so. “Is the pandemic only a physical threat to us or has the virus become a threat in cyber domain too? Any big trend or any big event on the physical world will always have a reflection on the cyber domain,” confirmed Vitaly Kamluk, director for Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) Asia Pacific at Kaspersky. In an online webinar dedicated to media from the Asia Pacific (APAC), Kamluk noted how COVID-19 has disturbed the normal IT ecosystem of organizations in the region and in the global stage as well. The different forms of quarantine measures resulted in more staff bringing work computers to arguably unprotected home networks. T
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