North Korea reportedly plans massive cyberattack this weekend to steal your stimulus check

By Nicholas Fearn for Tom's Guide
Saturday, June 20, 2020

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In terms of numbers, the hackers have 1.4 million curated email IDs for U.S. targets; 180,000 business contacts in the UK; 1.3 million individual email IDs in Japan; 2 million individual email IDs in India; 8,000 contact emails in Singapore; as well as 700,000 individual email IDs in South Korea.

Ilia Kolochenko, founder & CEO of web security company ImmuniWeb, told Tom’s Guide: “To combat the rising threat of phishing attacks, organizations should gradually invest in consistent cybersecurity awareness and personnel training.

“The human layer remains the weakest link but is, however, frequently underestimated by victims. As a matter of technical cyber resilience, assets visibility, continuous security and anomaly monitoring enhanced with agile patch management will prevent the vast majority of problems addressable on the technical side.” Read Full Article