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Pharmaceutical companies exploited by phishing scam targeting job seekers

IT Governance

Earlier this month, two major pharmaceutical giants issued warnings about phishing emails targeting job hunters. Unfortunately, red flags like that are ignored in all kinds of phishing scams, and this scheme is a perfect example of why that happens. For example, most ransomware attacks are spread via phishing emails.

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Resecurity Released a Status Report on Drug Trafficking in the Dark Web (2022-2023)

Security Affairs

Such interactions could be to discuss physical drop off points with specific instructions for example: The physical drop location with GPS coordinates, if buried then how deep it’s been buried at a specific GPS location, a photo of the location to help the buyers pinpoint the exact spot may also be included.

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Is Co-Authoring the Right Prescription for You?

AIIM

Pharmaceutical and Life Science are good examples of industries that are feeling the pain. Submissions to the Food and Drug Administration, for example, can total hundreds, if not thousands, of pages. Indeed, we often have great ability to input data, but what about the ability output information? How can you do it too?

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How to protect healthcare and life-sciences data from a cyber attack pandemic

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

For example, the consulting company Mckinsey found that the usage of telehealth has grown 38 times if compared to the usage before the pandemic. The digitalization of the healthcare. Other features that exploded in popularity were the usage of AI-enabled chatbots such as symptom checkers and of remote patient monitoring.

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Intelligent Search – Strategies to Find What You Need

AIIM

For many organizations, especially those in jargon-intense fields like the Oil and Gas, Pharmaceutical, or Healthcare industries, “speaking the right language” goes well beyond standard search terms. Sift and Aggregate: With so much information to manage, it can help to reduce the chaos.

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New Cybersecurity Directives (NIS2 and CER) Enter into Force

Hunton Privacy

For example, the concept of “essential entities” replaces “operators of essential services”; it is likely that most organizations classified as “operators of essential services” under the original NIS Directive will be classified as “essential entities” under the NIS2 Directive.

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Cambridgeshire crowned the UK’s cyber crime capital

IT Governance

For example, the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, which is based in Cambridge, was last year imitated in a sophisticated phishing scam targeting job seekers. Unfortunately, these sectors are especially prone to cyber attacks due to the sensitive information that they keep.