Malicious hackers are always on the lookout for opportunities to launch an attack, and the coronavirus pandemic has provided one.
According to cybersecurity agency Mimecast, transportation was one of the three most targeted sectors by cyberattackers during the first 100 days of the pandemic, and the firm said there’s a greater than 95% chance that cyberattacks will increase after the event.
Cybersecurity was a topic of discussion Thursday during CCJ‘s online Symposium, Upshift. Panelists for “Breaches & Ransom! Why Hackers Think Fleets are Easy Targets” included B-H Transfer Vice President of Administration John Wilson; Matt Cacace, Daseke’s senior vice president of business systems; and Bob Verret, Chief Information Office for Dupré Logistics.
“This is a very emotional time,” Verret of the pandemic, “and when you’re emotional, you tend to be distracted.”
It’s a generally accepted concept that a company’s greatest cyberthreats come from within, Cacace said.
“You and I and others get several emails per day or per week that entice you to click on links to take you to websites where we’ll just say bad things can happen,” he said. “Anyone with a network has a firewall that is probably attacked several times an hour with various bad actors trying to get into your system.”
Wilson’s Georgia-based company has been the target of attackers a few times, most recently in February, just as coronavirus made headlines but before anyone knew what lay ahead. The company’s anti-virus platform diagnosed and shut down the malware attack before it was able to launch, but Wilson noted the initial attack turned out to only be the first wave.
