Microsoft: Under 2% of all daily malspam uses COVID-19 lures

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https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-under-2-of-all-daily-malspam-uses-covid-19-lures/

By Catalin Cimpanu
ZDNet
Zero Day
April 8, 2020

You've probably read in many places online that cybercriminals are heavily
exploiting the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to trick users into
infecting themselves with malware or steal their personal information.

However, in a report published today, Microsoft says that they haven't seen any
noticeable spike in malware activity due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The company says that of the millions of emails it sees and scans daily, only
60,000 include COVID-19 related malicious attachments or malicious URLs, which
amounts to less than two percent of the total malicious email (malspam) traffic.

Instead of a spike in traffic, Redmond says that cyber-criminals have merely
changed email templates and subject lines (lures), switching from regular
invoice-themed lures to COVID-19-related topics

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