SINGAPORE (April 8): As the global Covid-19 pandemic rages on, cyber criminals are preying on public concerns about the Covid-19 pandemic and unprecedented changes to workplace practices to ramp up their attacks. 

A survey of 411 IT and security experts from organisations with more than 500 employees commissioned by cybersecurity firm Check Point Software Technologies found that 71% of respondents reported an increase in security threats or attacks since the outbreak of the virus. 

The most prevalent of these were phishing attempts (cited by 55% of respondents), disinformation from malicious websites (32%) and increases in malware (28%). 

These findings follow an earlier study by the firm which found that Covid-19-related websites are 50% more likely to be malicious than...(click on link for full story on theedgesingapore.com)