Bad actors are rapidly mounting phishing campaigns, setting up malicious websites and sending malicious attachments to take full advantage of the pandemic and users’ need for information, their fears and other emotions. More often than not, the goal is the compromise of login credentials.
Many organizations grant more trust to users on the intranet versus users on the internet. Employees working from home – while unknowingly browsing potentially malicious websites and clicking on doctored COVID-19 maps that download malware – are using company laptops and VPNs to connect to the corporate network and from there are granted a much wider degree of latitude in terms of access to different resources.
Once a user’s credentials are compromised, this implicit trust associated with a user’s locality of access from the i ..
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