User:Farhat647

I am writing about how the hospitals and medical places are under cyber attack after the covid19 pandemic.

The hackers are active at all the time on the internet and closely monitor the consumer's/victim's information and try to pick the data and information of their interests. These data (such as PII data) can be used by the attackers to get unauthorized access to the sensitive databases. A lot of examples can be found about how the attackers take the advantage of the covid19 pandemic, for instance, the attackers already deceived a huge number of people (then call as victims) across the globe and stolen their personal information, financial transaction and login credentials.

In the covid19 cyber-attack, the attackers most of the times use text scams or an email to deceive the victim(s). In the text scams, the attacker expresses themselves to be a representative or a staff member of a hospital and ask the victim(s)/patient(s) to pay the initial consultancy fee (for example) or enter your financial or personal information for post-exploitation purposes. In these scams, the actors may include some web links or attachments. For example, if the recipient is a patient by-self, the actor might mention, ‘click the link or download the attachment to find out how to deal with the COVID19 situation’.

Adding more on this, in the current COVID-19 pandemic situations, online hackers get an unauthorized login access to the hospital computers and sensitive servers. In the current pandemic, these actors spread this scam through emailing, text messaging and through social platforms (such as Facebook, Twitter), in the hope, the victim will respond, and the hackers will be able to steal the individual’s login, bank details etc for further post-exploitation purposes.