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COVID-19 is a viral respiratory illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for a global pandemic starting in 2020. The pandemic triggered widespread changes in work and communication, including rapid adoption of remote work and digital services, which altered the cybersecurity landscape.
In information security, COVID-19 increased risks such as phishing campaigns exploiting pandemic-related themes to steal credentials or deliver malware, and attacks on healthcare organizations critical to pandemic response. The sudden shift to remote work often led to misconfigured systems and weaker endpoint security, expanding attack surfaces. Organizations had to prioritize securing remote access, updating threat intelligence to detect COVID-19-themed scams, and reinforcing user awareness to mitigate these targeted threats.
Why a private college that stayed in business for 157 years had to close after the combo of COVID-19 and ransomware proved too much.
A previously undocumented remote access trojan (RAT) written in the Go programming language has been spotted disproportionately targeting entities in Italy, Spain, and the U.K
Malicious emails with macro-enabled Word documents are spreading a never-before-seen remote-access Trojan, researchers say.
COVID-19 and a December 2021 cyberattack combined to put the future of Abraham Lincoln's namesake college in peril.
Lincoln College, a liberal-arts school from rural Illinois, says it will close its doors later this month, 157 years since it was founded and following a hard hit on its finances after the COVID-19 pandemic and a recent ransomware attack. [...]