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| Source |  AlienVault Blog |
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| Identifiant | 1736073 |
| Date de publication | 2020-05-27 11:00:00 (vue: 2020-05-27 12:00:51) |
| Titre | How malware mimics the spread of COVID-19 |
| Texte | It’s a weird time to be alive. Millions of people globally are living under government lockdowns, as we collectively endure the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 has brought to light some fundamental truths about humanity, including our deep-seated need for social interactions. It has also highlighted how reliant we are on critical infrastructure like our healthcare systems and internet connections, both of which are currently strained. One of the most fascinating by-products of the COVID-19 pandemic for me personally, however, is how it has suddenly brought science and public health back to the fore of conversation. We are all washing our hands more, practicing social distancing, and acutely aware of how our choices may impact other people. Those of us in white-collar professions, including the technology field, are also now working from home in order to practice safe social distancing, which has created a host of significant cybersecurity vulnerabilities. I graduated with my Masters in Public Health from UC-Berkeley in 2011, and I love understanding the spread of disease and the impact of interventions like vaccines (and more mundane things like trash cans!). In 2014 I entered the field of cybersecurity via IBM, which then led me to complete a Masters in Cybersecurity from Brown University in 2018. These two degrees seem very different from one another, but the two fields have clear parallels. Much of our language in cybersecurity is borrowed from healthcare. A computer gets “infected” with a “virus” that spreads across endpoints. Sound familiar? You just replace computer with “human” and endpoints with “population,” and you essentially have a pandemic. As the world has adjusted to living under the threat of COVID-19, I began thinking about how similar a pandemic is to malware. Can understanding COVID-19 help us understand malware or vice versa? Let’s explore this together and see if the analogy holds. To do this, we will break down how the COVID-19 pandemic works first, along with the mitigation efforts, and then explore the parallels to malware and cybersecurity. What is a pandemic? According to the CDC, “A pandemic is a global outbreak of disease. Pandemics happen when a new virus emerges to infect people and can spread between people sustainably. Because there is little to no pre-existing immunity against the new virus, it spreads worldwide.” Enter COVID-19 COVID-19 is the name of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS-COV-2. SARS-COV-2 spreads from person to person, through droplets or aerosols, by entering the nose, mouth, or eyes. Aerosol spread is particularly infectious, because it means that an asymptomatic person can spread the disease just by talking, and the virus particles can live in the air up to three hours. When you become infected by SARS-COV-2, you have COVID-19 (the disease state), even if you are asymptomatic. Stopping the spread As COVID-19 spread around the world, “hot-spots” developed in China, then Italy and other parts of Europe, followed by New York City. Social distancing became a primary means of mitigating the spread. Countries like South Korea and New Zealand implemented vast testing protocols early and began contact tracing, so that huge parts of society did not have to shut down for long periods of time. Time to contrast the COVID-19 pandemic with malware. What is malware? Malware is an abbreviation of “malicious code.” NIST defines malware as “hardware, firmware, or software that is intentionally includ |
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