Cyber Threats At NASA Significantly Increasing

NASA CIO Agencywide Memo: Alert: Cyber Threats Significantly Increasing During Coronavirus Pandemic, NASA CIO
“A new wave of cyber-attacks is targeting Federal Agency Personnel, required to telework from home, during the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. During the past few weeks, NASA’s Security Operations Center (SOC) mitigation tools have prevented success of these attempts. Here are some examples of what’s been observed in the past few days:
– Doubling of email phishing attempts
– Exponential increase in malware attacks on NASA systems
– Double the number of mitigation-blocking of NASA systems trying to access malicious sites (often unknowingly) due to users accessing the Internet
Experts believe these malicious cyber-attacks will continue and likely increase during the pandemic. NASA’s SOC continues to monitor and protect Agency systems, data, and intellectual property 24×7.
Please continue your vigilance, as you use NASA systems, and extend this to your home-computer usage as well.”