How is the coronavirus pandemic shaping the business operations of criminal networks? Tracking how the market is changing in real time, Digital Shadows has observed that some operations have quickly curtailed their activity while the majority of malicious actors are capitalizing on the crisis, noting, for example, that an increase in online transactions has potentially bolstered success rates for credit and debit card fraud.

The World Economic Forum released a guide on how businesses and employees can protect themselves against cyberattacks while working from home during COVID-19. 

CNA announced the appointment of Mahmood Khan as Senior Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer.

As large numbers of people turn to video-teleconferencing (VTC) platforms to stay connected in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, reports of VTC hijacking (also called “Zoom-bombing”) are emerging nationwide.

Matthew Rosenquist has joined the Eclipz executive team as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).

Innovyze has announced Rick Gruenhagen as Chief Technology Officer. Gruenhagen assumes a key role on the executive team reporting to CEO Colby Manwaring. He will oversee the company’s overall product direction and development and will lead the engineering, product and infrastructure teams.

Following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), BSI, in its role as the UK National Standards Body, has released a suite of 11 risk management and business continuity standards

vpnMentor’s research team recently discovered a breached database, containing more than 135 million records. The database, claims vpnMentor, belongs to Cloud backup provider SOS Online Backup. 

Two new phishing attacks are taking advantage of the current situation regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.