We live in a world where opportunistic cyber-attackers are everywhere. This year, they have leveraged the pandemic, in particular fear surrounding the pandemic, for their own personal gain. In the first 100 days of the outbreak, the number of coronavirus-themed spam messages increased by 26%, while the number of impersonation attacks jumped by 30%. Chris Versace reports. The first recorded cyber attack dates back to 1988. It exploited a worm known as the "Morris Worm", which started to install itself on computers, infecting them and debilitating them before finally crashing them. The ...
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