With the majority of the current workforce working from home these days, there has been a rise in cyberattacks. While working from home, employees are constantly connecting digitally, thus increasing the attack surface. Bitdefender’s Mid-Year Threat Landscape Report 2020 found there was a “seven-fold year-on-year increase in ransomware reports.” Furthermore, it reported that “a defining characteristic of the first half of 2020 in terms of threats and malware is that they all played on the same theme: the pandemic. A spike in scams, phishing and malware across all platforms and attack vectors seems to have been a direct result of cybercriminals leveraging issues related to Covid-19 to exploit fear and misinformation,” further confirming the rising cyber risks.
