As companies roll out mandatory work-from-home policies to help limit the risks posed by the coronavirus outbreak, cybersecurity experts warn that those remote setups invite new hacking risks.
As a large number of companies opt to work from home, cybersecurity experts say it's a hacker's paradise.Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images
Although Urbelis can't be certain about the identity of the hackers, he says the group replicated a portal used by remote WHO employees that he describes as"very, very convincing." And that's what we saw with the WHO on the 13th of March. We saw a URL – a web address — being created and put together that exactly mirrored the doorway to World Health Organization's internal file systems. So it was the external link to the internal file systems — that portal that remote employees would use to access the WHO, let's say if they were working from home – that's what this group had replicated.
I was glad to hear, on the back end of this though, from what we know from the WHO, that the attack was unsuccessful.On why the hacking group would want to target WHO
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