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Cyberattackers ramp up to 1.5 million COVID-19 Emails per day

Cyberattackers ramp up to 1.5 million COVID-19 Emails per day

Another confirmation that the pace of cyber threats continues to grow during the current coronavirus crisis. That growing pain point increases our conviction in our Cybersecurity & Data Privacy investing theme that powers the Rize Cybersecurity and Data Privacy UCITS ETF (CYBR) from RizeETF.

Cyberattackers have reached a peak of sending 1.5 million malicious emails per day related to the COVID-19 pandemic over the course of the last three months, according to new research.

Research from Forcepoint analyzing coronavirus-themed attacks between Jan. 19 to April 18 found cybercriminals adjusting threat levels to evolve with pandemic and typical employment trends.

Researchers sifted through their telemetry for the keywords “COVID” and “corona” in URLs accessed directly over the web or embedded with an email, according to a blog post posted Tuesday by Stuart Taylor, senior director of X-Labs at Forcepoint.

Source: Cyberattackers Ramp Up to 1.5M COVID-19 Emails Per Day | Threatpost

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