![]() In mid-March, the University of Brno Hospital, in the Czech Republic, temporarily shut down all of its computers due to a cyber breach, which delayed the hospital’s Covid-19 testing. When Covid-19 began spreading like wildfire in March and April, however, cyber-criminals took little time to pivot to the health care sector generally and any organization related to pandemic response. Approximately 44% in each of these sectors reported at least one incident or breach. Financial services, manufacturing, technology, and media and telecommunications companies proved to be the most popular targets for bad actors. ![]() The business insurer surveyed 5,569 cybersecurity professionals between December 2019 and February 2020 for the white paper. The number of companies reporting cyber incidents over the previous 12 months fell to 39%, from 61% the prior year, wrote the authors of the Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report 2020 yet losses from such incidents rose to $1.8 billion from $1.2 billion. Working from home complicates efforts to defend the enterprise from bad actors, but returning employees to the workplace is likely to be a slow process.īefore the novel coronavirus outbreak, 2020 was on track to see fewer-although more-costly- cyberattacks than the previous year, according to experts.
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