GONNA GO AHEAD AND CALL THAT ‘ALOT’ — Google said that it saw 18 million daily malware and phishing emailsrelated to Covid-19 last week. It also said in the same blog post on Thursdaythat it saw 240 million daily spam emails related to the virus. The companyboasted that it is blocking 99.9 percent of spam, phishing and malware from itsusers. “We have put proactive monitoring in place for COVID-19-related malwareand phishing across our systems and workflows,” company officials wrote. “Inmany cases, these threats are not new — rather, they’re existing malware campaignsthat have simply been updated to exploit the heightened attention on COVID-19.”

THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM — CISAre-upped an alert on Thursday about attacks on Pulse VPN servers and offerednew detection methods, including a tool the agency created. “CISA has conductedmultiple incident response engagements at U.S. Government and commercialentities where malicious cyber threat actors have exploited” the vulnerability“to gain access to victim networks,” the latest of three alerts on the subjectreads. Despite a patch issued last April, “CISA has observed incidents wherecompromised Active Directory credentials were used months after the victimorganization patched their VPN appliance.”

WILL THE U.S. BE NO. 1? — TheHarvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs thissummer will release an index of 30 prominent countries that matches thenations’ objectives with their capabilities. “The Belfer Cyber Power Indexreconceptualizes the notion of ‘cyber power’ at the country-level to reflectthe different objective(s) that each country is pursuing — demonstrated throughnational strategies, rhetoric and action — and their ability to achieve theseobjectives,”

Author:The Scotsman

Date: 15.04.2020

Abstract:

The public are being warnedagainst a new ‘sextortion’ scam that already has almost 100 victims.

A con email claims footage willbe posted online of the victim watching pornography unless they pay a ransomusing bitcoin.

There were 16 extortion reportsmade to Police Scotland overnight on April, with the number rising to 96 byTuesday.

Detective Inspector MichaelMcCullagh, of cybercrime investigations, said: “These type of scams aren’tunusual, however, this particular suspect or group has used a similar methodand wording in every email and in greater numbers than we normally see.

"The emails show current orlegacy passwords belonging to the victim, making the threat seem credible. Thisis a tactic used by criminals to alarm potential victims"

Author: ITBrief New Zealand

Date: 05.04.2020

Abstract:

More thana third of Kiwis have experienced a cyber crime incident in the past 12 months,according to new research.

TheNortonLifeLock Cyber Safety Insights Report found 1.2 million New Zealanders(36%) are estimated to have experienced cyber crime in 2019. On top of that,almost 5.4 million hours or an average of 4.3 hours per victim were spentresolving issues created by the crime.

Close toa third of New Zealand cyber crime victims (30%) were impacted financially withan estimated loss of NZ$108 million in the past year, the report found.

Accordingto the research, one in six New Zealand adults have experienced identity theft.More than 605,000 New Zealand adults (17%) experienced identity theft, with 5%impacted in 2019. ore than half of Kiwis (56%), whether they have experiencedidentity theft or not, said they very worried that their identity will bestolen.

Fiftypercent of respondents to the research said they felt they are well-protectedagainst ID theft occurring, however two thirds (67%) said they would have noidea what to do if their identity were stolen, while and 85% wish they had moreinformation on what to do if their identity were stolen.

"Whatwe are seeing is New Zealanders who have historically taken a 'she'll be rightattitude' are increasingly aware of the chance of identity theft, but don'tknow what to do if it does happen, and they're desperate for moreinformation," comments Mark Gorrie, territory manager and cyber securityexpert, APJ, NortonLifeLock.

Thereport found that distrust among New Zealand consumers towards social mediaproviders outpaced the global average (54% do not trust at all vs. 43% globalaverage). However, compared to those in other markets, more New Zealandrespondents trust healthcare providers (94% trust a lot/a little vs. 89% globalaverage) and the government (84% trust a lot/a little vs. 72% global average)when it comes to managing and protecting personal information.

Lessthan half of New Zealand consumers give credit to companies (40%) or thegovernment (46%) for doing enough when it comes to data privacy and protection,the report says. And, almost half (46%) believe that New Zealand is behind mostother countries when it comes to data privacy laws.

"Oncethe Privacy Bill comes into force, New Zealanders may begin to feeldifferently," says Gorrie.

"Onceenacted, the Privacy Bill should put the onus on businesses to ensure they'rekeeping personal information safe and secure".

Underthe proposed new regulations, New Zealand businesses must report serious data breachesto the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. Businesses also must provide thepersonal information held on an individual back to that individual if they askfor it.

"Animportant part of the bill requires overseas service providers, like socialmedia or cloud software companies, to also comply with the new laws,"Gorrie adds.

Thereport found New Zealanders are split on who should be held most responsiblefor ensuring personal information and data privacy are protected. Nearly 4 in10 (38%) believe the government should be held most responsible, whileone-third (33%) put the burden on companies, followed closely by individualconsumers (29%) who should be protecting their own data privacy byreading the policies and ensuring their personal information is shared onlywith companies they trust.

Themajority of New Zealand adults (86%) believe consumers should always readcompanies privacy policies in full but a mere 2% report always doing sothemselves, the report shows. Only 9% say they do it often. In fact, NewZealanders are among the most likely to rarely/never read privacy policies (56%vs. 47% global average).

Accordingto the research, most of the New Zealanders who do not always read privacypolicies in full say its because they are too confusing (80% vs. 735 globalaverage), and they feel they have no choice but to accept the policies in orderto use the app or service (86% vs. 78% global average). And 9 out of 10 (89%)say that they would be more willing to read privacy policies if they were givenchoices about how their personal information could or couldn't be used; this iseven more persuasive for adults in New Zealand than many other markets (82%global average).

Assecurity measures in public spaces increase, facial recognition technology isbecoming more common place, according to the report. New Zealand consumers areamong the most familiar with facial recognition (64% vs. 52% global average),second only to India (70%) and on par with the United States (64%).

Despitefamiliarity with the technology, skepticism remains. The majority of NewZealand consumers (66%) believe facial recognition will be abused or misused inthe next year above the global average of 62%.

Thereport suggests New Zealanders overwhelmingly believe businesses (93%) and thegovernment (92%) should be required to inform and report where or when they areusing facial recognition well above the global averages (87 and 86%respectively). Specifically, the top concern among New Zealand consumers whenit comes to facial recognition is the ability for cyber criminals to accessand/or manipulate their facial recognition data and steal their identity(41%).

"TheNortonLifeLock Cyber Safety Insights Report brings to light the trends we'vebeen seeing in New Zealand over the past year," Gorrie says.

"Peopleare becoming more aware of their presence online and the value of theirpersonal data. It's not enough to simply have anti-virus software installed ona laptop anymore. It's critical that any cyber security plan designed toprotect you and your family is comprehensive," he says.

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