Navy CIO: 'Malicious Cyber Actors' Attacking Military Telework Infrastructure - USNI News:
Adversaries are taking on the Navy's shift to remote work in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the service's chief information officer.
Speaking at the Department of the Navy's Gold Coast Small Business Procurement event today, Navy CIO Aaron Weis said the service saw a jump in malicious activity as employees began teleworking to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
"We've seen a number of potential exploits by malicious cyber actors. Kind of the easiest stuff and because everyone is super responsive and working from home – lots of phishing activity. And Especially early on, if it said COVID-19 in the subject line, you were going to open it," Weis said.
"And really then that's the front door and then getting somebody to click on an attachment or whatnot that you can get into somebody's face with a COVID-themed message," he continued. "The other is – there was an uptick in the registration of domain names that contain COVID, COVID-19, along with DOD specific variants of that, as the services rushed to push out tracking, tracing capability services, etc, for use in this teleworking environment."
Weis did not provide details as to where the attacks originated. In addition to phishing and using registered domain names, Weis said the Navy also saw an increase in "spoofing" activities, with attackers sending messages looking like they were from "trustworthy sources." Weis praised U.S. Cyber Command, Marine Corps Cyberspace Command and U.S. Fleet Cyber Command for swiftly responding to the attempts.
(Score: 5, Funny) by ikanreed on Thursday September 03 2020, @02:47PM (5 children)
What about malicious cyber actresses?
(Score: 3, Funny) by JoeMerchant on Thursday September 03 2020, @03:10PM
Myth of Hollywood. Cyberequity is still imaginary.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday September 03 2020, @07:23PM (2 children)
I suspect the malicious actors is related to testosterone.
Not that everyone with a Y chromosome will be malicious.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Thursday September 03 2020, @07:48PM (1 child)
Sigh.
You make one joke with ironic sexism and in comes the unironic unfunny sexism to join you.
I don't know how you've been so sheltered and protected in your life that you've never met a violent, sadistic, or malicious woman, but plenty exist.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday September 03 2020, @07:53PM
I do realize they do exist. I have been fortunate to have not had any long term exposure to one.
I'll admit that I do have a stereotype that most cyber crimes are probably committed by males. I could be wrong.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2020, @10:24PM
As long as she wears that metal cyber-bikini.