{"id":29876,"date":"2020-04-30T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/?p=29876"},"modified":"2020-05-03T19:49:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T16:49:35","slug":"cyber-risks-threats-and-security-measures-related-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/?p=29876&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Cyber risks, threats and security measures related to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cyber_landscape_2020.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29871 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cyber_landscape_2020-300x104.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cyber_landscape_2020-150x52.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cyber_landscape_2020-200x69.png 200w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cyber_landscape_2020-300x104.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cyber_landscape_2020-400x138.png 400w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cyber_landscape_2020-600x207.png 600w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cyber_landscape_2020-768x265.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cyber_landscape_2020-800x276.png 800w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cyber_landscape_2020-1024x354.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cyber_landscape_2020-1200x415.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cyber_landscape_2020-1536x531.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cyber_landscape_2020.png 1742w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The ten most current risks and threats of techno-social type related to COVID-19 for 2020 are analyzed by scientists at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of BAS (IICT). Practical protective measures are also proposed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Summarized data from the analysis of Assoc. Prof. Zlatogor Minchev and Assistant Professor Ivan Gaydarski of the \u201cInformation Technologies for Security\u201d department of IICT-BAS give current priority to threats and risks related to attacks on key online services and vulnerabilities in the Home Office working organization. Other important ones at the moment are: phishing threats and malware attacks. Growth in significance, but to a lesser extent, is also expected in terms of crypto-virus attacks, vulnerabilities in popular applications, robocall scams, fake applications and news, gray-market scams and malicious domains.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With this in mind, it is a good idea to implement protective measures with maximum automation, relying on intelligent systemic security and multiple-security solutions, scientists explain. This will, on the one hand, prevent the loss of data, information, technological and economic resources and, on the other, facilitate day-to-day social processes through intelligent technological support to effectively transform society into the new digital reality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The analysis may be accessed here: <a href=\"http:\/\/it4sec.org\/bg\/article\/kiber-riskove-zaplahi-i-merki-za-zashchita-svrzani-s-covid-19\">http:\/\/it4sec.org\/bg\/article\/kiber-riskove-zaplahi-i-merki-za-zashchita-svrzani-s-covid-19<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both literary data as well as industry and research expertise gathered from the \u201cSecure Digital Future initiative 21\u201d were used and recent activities of the European Network of Cyber Security Centers &#8211; ECHO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ten most current risks and threats of techno-social type related to COVID-19 for 2020 are analyzed by scientists at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of BAS (IICT). Practical protective measures are also proposed. Summarized data from the analysis of Assoc. Prof. Zlatogor Minchev and Assistant Professor Ivan Gaydarski of the \u201cInformation Technologies for Security\u201d department of IICT-BAS give current priority to threats and risks related to attacks on key online services and vulnerabilities in the Home Office working organization. Other important ones at the moment are: phishing threats and malware attacks. Growth in significance, but to a lesser extent, is also expected in terms of crypto-virus attacks, vulnerabilities in popular applications, robocall scams, fake applications and news, gray-market scams and malicious domains. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/?p=29876&#038;lang=en\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":29872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1485],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29877,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29876\/revisions\/29877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}