You would have seen that during pre and post-covid months, thousands of cyberattacks hit private and government bodies around the globe and damaged their reputation, and asked for hefty ransom amounts. Like most organizations that didn’t pause their work during Covid, they took advantage of virtual technologies and adopted work-from-home strategies.
You will see that most victims were from those organizations that shut their offices and started working from home. It didn’t matter whether they were small or large organizations, but most experienced cyber attacks like phishing, ransomware, and DDoS attacks. That was a golden chance for various hacking communities and ransomware groups.
The international governing bodies like CISA, NCSC, etc., rapidly issued alerts, but hackers didn’t give any chance to the victims to understand and patch up the issues CISA talked about.
Covid became the major reason for recent cyber attacks.
There is a long list of victims from the different industries that were hit with the cyber attacks during Covid-related activities. Here, if we start counting from educational institutions to hospitals and from government organizations to private organizations, you will see the top departments of the US government; many hospitals and premium schools and universities have become victims of the wave of cyber attacks.
Private IT companies like SolarWinds and its hundreds of vendors, Microsoft, Okta, and many more have become victims of cyber attacks during the Covid era; some companies remained the victims of ransomware attacks, and some were hit with other types of attacks where they lost their data. Apart from these, many other industries like the food and petroleum industry where cybercriminals have targeted food manufacturers and oil companies with ransomware attacks.
Here is one thing you need to focus on: you cannot say that only a single industry has some drawbacks and only that particular industry needs improvements in its security to defend against cyber-attacks.
The above-stated organizations that became victims of cyber attacks describe that hackers can hit any organization anytime. And the routes they follow are the same for all the organizations.
Every company, whether single or large, has a small number of employees or a large number; they use the Internet, they have their virtual networks, they expand their businesses through cloud infrastructure, and they prefer to use SaaS to increase their workflow.
Therefore, when everybody is dependent on the Internet and Internet-based software, networks, etc., then it is obvious that these resources may have vulnerabilities that attract cyber ghosts.
So, at this stage, every organization runs under cyber threats that may affect organizations through various vulnerabilities. And hackers always try their best to knock on every door, whether locked or not. If they find any loophole, they try to get into it.
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Don’t ignore Alerts and guidelines issued by regulatory bodies.
Here, if the regulatory bodies issue any alert, it is not for a single organization; they release the guidelines for everyone. But only a few organizations follow them, and most ignore those guidelines.
If you all want to secure the sensitive data that belongs to your and your clients. In that case, you must cooperate with cyber security agencies like CISA and regulatory bodies like GDPR. You must follow the compliances like HIPPA, ISO, etc., as per your industry because you have to run your organization as per those compliances and guidelines.
The companies or organizations that became victims during the pre and post covid era and the major reason for their failure was their negligence. They didn’t take the regulatory and security bodies’ alerts seriously. They adopted virtual and cloud-based technology to run their businesses from home, but phishing attacks trapped them.
Those who upgraded their software but remained unable to fix the loopholes became victims of major cyber attacks. For example, SolarWinds, because of which many private and government organizations suffered from cyber incidents.
The loopholes take birth from your negligence. It could be related to your communication on the Internet; it can be related to the technical team; it can be related to your staff member who may cheat you by selling your data to hackers.
Therefore, it’s time to stand together to defend the unauthorized activities in your organization. If you all will put your best efforts by following the guidelines of the security organizations and don’t break any rules, then it’s for sure that we will be able to bring the increasing rate of cyberattacks down.
