The global switch to remote working in early 2020 gave hackers a whole new set of juicy ransomware targets.
Or so says Secureworks, which throughout 2020 has, perhaps counterintuitively, insisted there has been minimal uptick in cyber activity from malicious people, stating in its research The Effect of COVID-19 on Incident Response that "data on confirmed security incidents and genuine threats to customers showed the threat level largely unchanged from before the pandemic."
Rather, reckons the company, the near-overnight shift to remote working triggered by the pandemic has created a whole set of poorly understood IT infrastructures lashed together in a hurry and therefore containing large numbers of hidden vulnerabilities – vulns that infosec bods ought to be hunting down, in Secureworks' view.
Barry Hensley, Secureworks' chief threat intelligence officer, said in a canned st ..
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