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https://bit.ly/2Z8Dsml The New Normal
How online grocery shopping can be damaging for your employer as well as your wallet
By David Higgins, EMEA Technical Director, CyberArk
In recent weeks, popping to the shops for supplies has become an exercise in queue management. For a period, getting your hands on certain items became virtually impossible. While the panic buying trend has faded, the government’s instruction to stay at and work from home has seen demand for online grocery shopping skyrocket. When you add opportunistic attackers and mandated home working for most employees to the mix, it’s a recipe laced with cyber-risk.
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ow, more than ever, our online behaviour and habits don’t just
encompass downtime spent on our own devices. Only last year, a Neteller survey found that one in five Brits now does their shopping online whilst on the clock. It’s reasonable to assume that this figure has now dramatically increased in this frenzied climate; not only are many more of us working from home, but online sales figures for supermarkets have jumped in the last few weeks. More online payments being made means more bounty to be made, which in turn means more risk.
Data and assets, ripe for the picking Makers of ransomware and malware of all kinds will see this time as one of opportunity. Wherever there is uncertainty, vulnerabilities occur, and vulnerabilities are exactly what cybercriminals are looking for. But in this situation, there is more at stake. Why? Well, in 2020, what we lose to them will not always just be the personal, such as our PPI or bank details. Whilst these data nuggets will always be welcomed by a certain strain of cyber-criminal, our
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changing purchasing patterns also put our employers at risk.
The corporate laptops that we use to snap up bargains aren’t isolated devices. They are, potentially, a gateway to more lucrative data and assets. Even the ability to hold a city to ransom or an opportunity to take down critical infrastructure could result from something as basic as a ransomware attack that starts on an end user’s device. And this isn’t just a potential threat at the moment. Reports of data breaches have been coming in thick and fast since stringent lockdown measures were put in place. The threat is already here.
Gone phishing Businesses invest heavily in security. But the types of protection currently in place aren’t always enough to stop attacks like ransomware – a threat that can be delivered in the shape of a simple phishing email and can easily evade anti- virus and firewall tools. In fact, it was the fastest growing form of attack affecting businesses in 2019 according to Accenture, up 21% from 2018. Malware is also a common threat that arises simply by landing on an infected web page.
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