Coronavirus Fears Exploited in Phishing Attacks | AppRiver

Coronavirus Fears Exploited in Phishing Attacks | AppRiver

Over the past few weeks, we have been patiently awaiting a surge in malicious email activity surrounding the Novel Coronavirus outbreak that has garnered headlines across the globe. We had previously spotted some run-of-the-mill spam campaigns that were leveraging the outbreak to hawk over-ear facemasks. We subsequently saw some activity from the Emotet malware group that was exploiting the topic by sending mal-spam links. However, those were limited in scale and seemed to be only targeting users in Japan.

Coronavirus Fears Exploited in Phishing Attacks | AppRiver