How adversaries bank on trending news topics to improve their techniques, analysis of COVID-19 Case
The COVID-19 virus has spread rapidly: governments take a series of critical measures and impose restrictions and the companies are suspending various field activities and supporting remote working.Threat actors have quickly taken advantage of the pandemic COVID-19 virus and leverage its news virality to improve their attack techniques.
Watch this 15-minute webinar and learn:
How adversaries take advantage of trending news topics
Four different techniques adversary utilize using COVID-19
Improve engagement by instigating curiosity
Improve legitimacy by disguising as a trusted party
Create a sense of urgency and play on fear of users
Banking on virality of trending topics
How to prevent and detect such adversary behavior?
Pablo Ridgeway 
