/channels/news_feeds/all/term/Strategic%20Initiatives/rss en /channels/channels/news/cyber-threats-canadian-medical-research-community-during-covid-19-pandemic-awareness-and-recommended-321200 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="https://cyber.gc.ca/en/">The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security</a> assesses that the COVID-19 pandemic presents an elevated level of risk to the cyber security of the medical research community in Canada. Cyber criminals and other threat actors that utilize malware and ransomware to exploit organizations may leverage the increased pressure placed on these organizations as a method of extracting ransom payments or masking compromises aimed at the theft of intellectual property and/or other sensitive data amidst the existing environment of uncertainty.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">19 </span><span class="month">March </span><span class="year">2020</span></div></div></div></div></div> Thu, 19 Mar 2020 15:58:15 +0000 webfull 159635 at /channels