Preventing Cyber Threats During The COVID-19 Pandemic

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Preventing Cyber Threats During The COVID-19
Pandemic

• Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there
  has been a dramatic increase in the number of
  cyber-attacks targeting the private sector,
  healthcare systems, and others, raising key
  cybersecurity considerations about how to disrupt
  cyber threats.

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Preventing Cyber Threats

• The pandemic has forced businesses to
  operate remotely and spread resources while
  reducing budgets in an attempt to save costs
  during the crisis. But such moves have opened new
  doors for threat actors to exploit
  vulnerabilities as the usual security processes
  have been bypassed, making it more challenging
  for authorities to address and prevent cyber
  threats.
• As threat actors around the world seek to
  gain financial and strategic advantages during
  the crisis, businesses require robust security to
  safeguard their data and clientele as phishing
  attacks, ransom-ware, and vicious malware, which
  posed significant issues even before the spread
  of Covid-19 continue to compromise security.

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Preventing Cyber Threats

• Tens of millions of phishing emails with
  enticing subject lines related to coronavirus
  guidelines and warnings, claiming to be from
  global health authorities have scammed countless
  individuals by tricking them into providing
  personal credentials, payment details, or to open
  malicious attachments.
• With new attacks and scams which take
  advantage of the fear and uncertainty surrounding
  the pandemic surface on a daily basis, Cobwebss
  automated tools can identify the digital
  footprints of the threat actors behind the
  attacks targeting individuals and can trace them,
  map them and monitor them in a non-intrusive way,
  allowing investigators to get to the source.

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Preventing Cyber Threats

• Investigation can be launched with any
  small piece of cyber forensic information of a
  suspect-a name, location, IP address, or image
  and in various languages. With artificial
  intelligence tools, a vast amount of intelligence
  from across open sources to the deep and dark web
  can be gathered, networked, and mapped within
  seconds.
• The digital forensic tools can, with the
  click of a button, retrieve and analyze the data
  collected from various sources and provide
  unmatched intelligence by identifying malicious
  profiles, location, group structure, and others.
  Cyber forensics can also generate relevant alerts
  when intelligence is detected, as well as
  generate customizable automated reports which can
  be extracted when needed.

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Preventing Cyber Threats

• With social media websites giving rise to
  an unprecedented volume of intelligence for
  security agencies, open-source intelligence, or
  OSINT, is a treasure trove of information
  allowing investigators to obtain critical
  information.
• Cobwebs automated analysis of multiple
  languages also enables investigators to identify
  malicious chatter related to the COVID-19
  pandemic across all layers of the internet. The
  harvesting of intelligence is assisted by AI,
  machine learning, and natural language processing
  (NLP), which automatically monitor and prioritize
  alerts.
• With web intelligence capabilities
  providing the algorithms to identify and mitigate
  threats, authorities can remain one step ahead of
  cybercriminals who aim to make big profits from
  the deadly coronavirus pandemic.
• In times of crisis, it is crucial to
  identify and block cyber-threats attempting to
  exploit the uncertainty surrounding the current
  situation as quickly as possible. Cobwebs
  automated tools can identify and alert
  authorities to the cybercrime and prevent the
  threat actors from further malicious attacks.