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Federal Agencies Find A (Very Expensive) Silver Lining to COVID Fraud

16. Mai 2022

Zerofox logoAs the world went into lockdown, cybersecurity teams went on high alert. A health crisis, especially one with global reach, was almost certainly going to attract threat actors looking to capitalize on a topic with such high interest. It’s to be expected. But despite any warnings or tips we could offer at the start of the pandemic.

Fast forward two plus years, we now have an opportunity to analyze several methods of fraud campaigns related to the pandemic that we’ve observed, the damage done in terms of cost at scale, and specifically, how fraud impacted federal security operations throughout the government’s response to COVID-19. 

In April 2021, Kevin Reardon, Chief Operating Officer at ZeroFox, led a panel discussion with Steven Hernandez, CISO and Director of Information Assurance Services at the U.S. Department of Education, and James Saunders, former CISO of the Small Business Administration (SBA), during which they discussed the external threats they faced as a result of the pandemic and how they had to evolve quickly to respond. ...read more!