RANT Radio: Mutated Cyber

Mutated Cyber: The Was, Is and Will be of Cybercrime in a post-pandemic age

COVID-19 is being used in a variety of malicious campaigns including email spam, BEC attack, ransomware, and other scams.

As the number of those afflicted continues to surge by thousands, campaigns that use the disease as a lure likewise increase. Trend Micro Research has been reporting on how COVID-19 has affected the threat landscape.

Recent findings include how scammers took advantage of the surge in online activity during the pandemic, targeting businesses and buyers that were settling into new ways of transacting. We also look into how these attacks will affect our current and future digital economy and practices, such as:

• Impact of the security of online transactions, information across industries
• Accumulation of data collected, processed and stored through this crisis and its effect on data privacy /security
• Appetite of the Threat actors, how they are changing their game plans?