"Cyberattackers Ramp Up to 1.5M COVID-19 Emails Per Day"

Forcepoint researchers have been analyzing coronavirus-themed attacks between January 19th to April 18th and have found that cybercriminals are adjusting threat levels to evolve with pandemic and typical employment trends.  Researchers went through their telemetry for the keywords "COVID" and "corona" in URLs accessed directly over the web or embedded with an email.  The researchers found a rise in unwanted emails (malicious, phishing, or spam) regarding COVID-19.  During the peak volumes, the researchers identified 1.5 million total COVID-19 related emails per day, which contained both legitimate and malicious traffic related to the current global crises.  

Threatpost reports: "Cyberattackers Ramp Up to 1.5M COVID-19 Emails Per Day"