(CNN) The United States and United Kingdom issued a new advisory Tuesday warning of ongoing cyberattacks against organizations involved in the coronavirus response , including health care bodies, pharmaceutical companies, academics, medical research organizations and local government.
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U.S., U.K. warn of state-linked hacking against coronavirus research
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's cybersecurity division and the U.K.'s National Cyber Security Centre ( NCSC ) "are currently investigating a number of incidents in which threat actors are targeting pharmaceutical companies, medical research organizations, and universities," the agencies said in a joint advisory . They did not point the finger at particular governments.
It is only the latest evidence that intelligence agencies from multiple governments have used their cyber capabilities to try to gain an advantage in responding to the pandemic .
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Jason Kent, Hacker in Residence at Cequence Security , says companies should pay attention to legacy systems that could grant hackers a backdoor into their systems.
“Organizations need to pay attention to not only points of access in production environments but also all their deprecated and development endpoints,” Kent said. “These often-forgotten and unsecured APIs can be used by hackers to gain side-door access into systems to achieve the same access to confidential information and monetary gain as if they went through the front door.”
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A hacker group has attempted to hijack nearly one million WordPress sites in the last seven days, according to a security alert issued today by cyber-security firm Wordfence.
The company says that since April 28, this particular hacker group has engaged in a hacking campaign of massive proportions that caused a 30x uptick in the volume of attack traffic Wordfence has been tracking.
"While our records show that this threat actor may have sent out a smaller volume of attacks in the past, it's only in the past few days that they've truly ramped up," said Ram Gall, QA engineer at Wordfence.
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"Recipients would be hard-pressed to understand that these sites were set up to misdirect and deceive them to steal their credentials," Abnormal Security said, "given the current situation, people have become accustomed to notifications and invitations from collaboration software providers."
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