Kaspersky explains that the remote work solutions that the companies were forced to hastily set up amid the coronavirus pandemic have introduced vulnerabilities to their systems. The situation was reportedly so bad that “some literally did not even have enough laptops to provide to their employees” and “had to purchase whatever they found on the retail market, even if the machines did not comply with the security standards of the organization.”
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Here’s what it’s like to have cyber thieves hack you for your crypto accounts
Even the editor in chief of Modern Consensus can get attacked
I wasn’t going to write this piece. However, I saw this tweet on Tuesday: Hearing more and more about individuals involved in cryptocurrency having indications of cyberattacks directed at them multiples times/year. Numbers ported out, spoofed SMS, targeted phishing emails, coordinated/timed events. — Jackie 🤦🏽♀️ (@find_evil) July 10, 2018 I just became one of those people. Here’s how I was cyberattacked. This past Thursday night. I started getting a series of emails. First it was from Google. A Gmail account I use for a site that I run had a login. At 10:13 p.m., “Your Google Account was just signed in to from a new Motorola Moto E (4) device.…
