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Botnets as cybercriminals’ viable option in the emerging economic crisis

Zoran Mitrovic The StormWarning! CyberSecurity Blog

Most botnets are currently deployed for the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks but can also be used for delivering spyware, email spam, phishing, ‘click fraud’, stilling confidential information or the bitcoin mining.

Looming economic crisis

The world has changed dramatically in the three months since our last update of the World Economic Outlook in January, warns the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The April’s IMF World Economic Outlook projects global growth in 2020 to fall to -3 percent. This is a downgrade of 6.3 percentage points from January 2020, a major revision over a very short period.

Island hopping to your precious data and info resources

Zoran Mitrovic The StormWarning! CyberSecurity Blog

The industries most affected by island hopping attacks are finance, healthcare, manufacturing and retail.

The term ‘island hopping’ is not originally technological term – it comes from the military strategy. More precisely, the term comes from the World War II, from the strategy the US military used to get to mainland Japan via islands, such as Hawaii, Marshall Islands and Guam, to end the war.

Cloud, Edge and IoT trichotomy: cybersecurity concerns

Zoran Mitrovic The StormWarning! CyberSecurity Blog
ON  BY ZORAN MITROVICIN BUSINESS INTEREST, CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS, ORGANISATIONAL CYBERSECURITY

The cybersecurity issues of the Cloud, Edge and IoT trichotomy are inevitably related to all of these complementary technologies.

Cloud Computing is the delivery of on-demand computing services without direct active management by the user. These services range from applications to storage and processing power obtained from the remote data centres and available large number fo users over the Internet.

Do you think that incoming emails are the most dangerous? You might be wrong…

Zoran Mitrovic The StormWarning! CyberSecurity Blog
ON  BY ZORAN MITROVICIN BUSINESS INTEREST, CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS

Email is one of the primary ways we communicate and is an almost universal technology, making it perfect for attackers to reach their victims. Outgoing emails can be even more hazardous than incoming ones.

Running and securing business in the cyber environment in these pandemic and economic crisis times can be hard. The rapid progression of cyber threats can be attributed to technical failures but even more to human errors. The complexity of cybersecurity risk and cost involved continue to increase.

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Habituation as cybersecurity nightmare and panacea

Zoran Mitrovic The StormWarning! CyberSecurity Blog
ON  BY ZORAN MITROVICIN CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS, ORGANISATIONAL CYBERSECURITY

A number of studies confirmed that people often have a tendency to find ways to work around organisational cybersecurity policies. This     is actually not something that they    do on purpose but rather based on their habits. In other words, this behaviour is an effect of bad habituation.

THREATCASTING as an Emerging Cybersecurity Challenge

Zoran Mitrovic The StormWarning! CyberSecurity Blog
ON  BY ZORAN MITROVICIN CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS, NATIONAL CONCERNS

Scenario

Harriet Downs had it all: a great job, a loving husband, and two beautiful children. She was an up-and-coming programmer at Goldman Sachs for the company’s AI trading bots, on the fast track to management. She, her husband, Steve and the kids had just moved into a beautiful new house in Sevenoaks. Life was good.

  1. Antivirus vs Anti-malware simplified but it is also the matter of doctrine
  2. THREATCASTING as an Emerging Cybersecurity Challenge
  3. The greatest cybersecurity threat still stubbornly persists – and is possibly growing!
  4. Data breach? Not doing business with you, sorry…
  5. Protecting Critical Infrastructure: It is proven, technology is not enough
  6. Computing on the Edge: How secure it is?
  7. Cybersecurity quandary: Is the third party betraying us?
  8. 5G security: Is the cheese already moved?
  9. Deepfake: A fake news on steroids
  10. Weak cybersecurity can make benefits of the 4IR null and void

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