The global scale of the coronavirus outbreak is a unique opportunity for cyberattackers because anyone can be a target and everyone is vulnerable.
“That’s not something that happens very often … everything from hacktivism all the way through criminal espionage are all exploiting the same subject,” Jen Miller-Osborn, deputy director of Threat Intelligence for Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42, told CIO Dive, a sister publication of Construction Dive.
In January, McAfee, the computer security software company, began detecting pieces of mobile malware, disguised as apps for body temperature checks or other functions. The cyberthreats began to broaden, “it’s like we’ve kicked over a hornet’s nest,” said Raj Samani, chief scientist at McAfee.
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