IN ORDER TO BEST SUPPORT YOU DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, CGPA IS TAKING STOCK OF THE THREATS TO BE AWARE OF TO PREVENT CYBER RISKS

Cyber-attacks have increased since the outbreak of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. While work from home is spreading on a massive scale, e‑mail boxes are the first to be targeted and are particularly sensitive at the moment. That’s why CGPA is providing you with an update on current threats through three examples that you and your employees may face.

Phi­shing attacks exploi­ting pre­ven­tive mea­sures against the virus 

Research publi­shed by seve­ral enti­ties indi­cates the expo­nen­tial growth of cyber­phi­shing attacks exploi­ting public concern about Covid-19 through pre­ven­tion emails, or pur­chases of sur­gi­cal masks.

An “offi­cial” World Health Orga­ni­za­tion press release hides a phi­shing attack.

Atta­ckers posing as the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion are taking advan­tage of Covid-19 to lure their vic­tims with e‑mails contai­ning a link to a web­site imi­ta­ting the offi­cial web­site, in order to reco­ver their e‑mail addresses and passwords.

Mal­ware on Micro­soft Office

A three-page Micro­soft Office docu­ment dea­ling with coro­na­vi­rus was relea­sed some days ago, sup­po­sed­ly ori­gi­na­ting from the Public Health Centre of the Ukrai­nian Minis­try of Health.

All Covid-19 email cam­pai­gns should be wat­ched with cau­tion, even on per­so­nal com­pu­ters. Final­ly, great atten­tion should be paid to cash flow and your infor­ma­tion systems.

Good prac­tices

A few simple steps to take to enhance your cyber security :

  1. Don’t rush and always take time for confir­ma­tion ;
  2. Make regu­lar backups of your data (com­pu­ters, phone…) and keep a dis­con­nec­ted copy of your data ;
  3. Apply secu­ri­ty updates to your connec­ted equip­ment (ser­vers, com­pu­ters, phones…) as soon as they are available ;
  4. 4. Use strong, unique pass­words and enable dual authen­ti­ca­tion.