BENGALURU: Cyber criminals and the defenders are always in a cat and mouse game, with one trying to get ahead of the other.
As the world’s focus has shifted to the covid-19 outbreak, hackers are finding ways to launch different forms of cyber attacks.
With most people working from home, outside of the office network on their personal devices, cybercriminals are maximising on the vulnerabilities and organisations must gear up to combat them. “Cybercriminals have actually jumped into the covid-19 bandwagon," said Ashwin Pal, security services director, Asia Pacific, Unisys. “They are sending various types of phishing emails which have doubled in the past few days." It is in fact estimated that 91% of cyber attacks start with an email.