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Cyber Daily: Munich Airport Offers Training Space to Other Airports
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Good day. Airports, especially regional ones without large cybersecurity teams, are a prime target for hackers looking to extort or steal money from victims. The Munich Airport is running a cyber range where aviation and other firms can simulate dealing with malware and exchange best practices, WSJ Pro’s Catherine Stupp reports from Brussels.
Other news: Cyberattacks soar against the World Health Organization; FBI warns of email scams promising coronavirus financial relief.
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A plane sits on the tarmac at Munich Airport. The main cyber threats for airports are ransomware and other cyberattacks that aim to extort or steal money from victims, one aviation security expert says. PHOTO: ALEXANDER HASSENSTEIN/GETTY IMAGES
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Munich Airport offers cyber training facility to under-resourced companies. The facility also helps the airport retain cybersecurity staff amid a talent shortage, according to its head of information security assurance.
Other airports, car manufacturers and financial firms have used the range to experiment with different kinds of malware and learn from counterparts at other companies, said Marc Lindike, who is also Munich Airport’s head of cybersecurity.
The main cyber threats facing airports are ransomware and other cyberattacks that aim to extort or steal money from victims, according to David Ryder, head of aviation security at Airports Council International Europe, a trade body representing 500 European airports.
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Percentage of companies that have created a standby website with information to activate after a data breach, according to a survey of 1,226 security, privacy and compliance professionals from Ponemon Institute and Experian.
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PHOTO: YURI GRIPAS/REUTERS
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Be wary of email promising financial relief related to coronavirus. The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned last week of online fraud schemes related to the Covid-19 outbreak, SC Magazine reports. In an alert, the FBI pointed to email campaigns that offer false financial relief, treatments, testing kits and opportunities to donate to charities. The schemes coax recipients to provide personal details.
Sorry, but: “While talk of economic stimulus checks has been in the news cycle, government agencies are not sending unsolicited emails seeking your private information in order to send you money,” the alert said.
World Health Organization under attack. Flavio Aggio, the WHO’s chief information security officer, told Reuters that attempted cyberattacks against the organization have jumped amid the coronavirus pandemic. An incident earlier in March was a bid to steal credentials from WHO staff members, according to Mr. Aggio. Phishing campaigns that use email that mimics the WHO, United Nations and other bodies, meanwhile, are targeting people looking for information about the pandemic.
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