Is Covid-19 a medical threat or a bigger Cyber Security threat?

Is Covid-19 a medical threat or a bigger Cyber Security threat?

Since the outbreak of the epidemic Covid-19, there has been a huge amount of cyberattacks mainly targeting the health sector. the question that the public raises is, "are the security levels of the networks in hospitals enough to withstand the attacks or are our highly sensitive medical information at risk?". 

Also, the use of online payments have been increased drastically and are you using enough safety precautions to minimize the chance of getting your credit info stolen?

The recent significant attacks known were,

• An android application targeting over 200 banking applications including banking services, cryptocurrency wallets, PayPal, HSBC, Barclays and Capital-one applications.
• A Facebook phishing campaign along with a google document related phishing scam.
• A vulnerability in the Wordpress media-library-assistant plugin leaking sensitive data from the webserver.
• Vulnerabilities found in the Mail app of iPhones and iPads have been exploited by attackers to take complete control over Apple devices
• Free internet data scams increasing rapidly.
• Google chrome carrying a serious vulnerability which led to the exploit CVE-2020-6457
• Zoom hacked and over 500,000 accounts being sold in the dark web

An image depicting how a phishing attack works

WHO claims that there has been a drastic increase in cyber attacks targeting its employees and over 450 active email addresses and passwords of WHO employees were leaked online.

The cyberattacks were targeting the health sector and the financial sector. you can take steps like changing your password often, using strong passwords with alphanumeric combinations and using two-factor authentification to minimize the threat of these attacks.

But what can you do about the extremely sensitive information lying in the servers of the local hospital about you? Imagine sensitive information about cancer or serious disease of which you are trying to keep to yourself being leaked online! 

The World Health Organization claims that were hacked and these local hospital servers are at risk. Are the networks in the local hospitals strong enough to withstand these attacks?

The questions always lie unanswered