Phishing in a Pandemic: How to Combat Social Engineering Attacks
(World News Science)

Phishing in a Pandemic Over the past few months, threat intelligence teams around the world have been tracking a significant increase in phishing attacks. These attacks coincide with a temporary drop in more traditional attacks, indicating that attackers, like workers, are modifying their efforts in order to accommodate changes due to the pandemic. In fact, our recent Global Threat Landscape Report details this and more. More people are now working from home, and they are connecting back into the office from their home networks, and quite often, using their personal computers. Attackers are looking to target these users` devices as a way into the corporate network or cloud. They attempt to...