Cyberattacks Rising at ‘Alarming Rate’ During Pandemic, Reports Nokia
There’s no “let up” in cybercriminals using the COVID-19 pandemic to steal personal data, reported Nokia Thursday. One ruse is an app that mimics Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Resource Center website and plants malware on victims' computers to fetch personal…
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data, it said. "Cybercriminals are playing on people's fears and are seeing this situation as an opportunity to promote their agendas," said Nokia. It advised the public to install apps only from trusted app stores. It estimated IoT devices are now about a third of the equipment infected, more than double 2019's infection rate. The findings are based on data aggregated from monitoring network traffic on more than 150 million devices globally with Nokia “end point” security solutions deployed.