McAfee Labs COVID-19 Threats Report

McAfee Labs COVID-19 Threats Report, July 2020

What a year so far. What started as a trickle of phishing campaigns and the occasional malicious app quickly turned into a deluge of thousands of malicious URLs and more – than – capable threat actors. Cybercriminals always seek to create ever more sophisticated and opportunistic attacks. Remote work paradigms create new opportunities and require new defence mechanisms and practices.

This report illustrates the importance of maintaining strong cybersecurity defences regardless of whether employees are in traditional office or home-office environments. 

McAfee is focused on helping address these challenges with its Unified Cloud Edge  and CASB solutions that are inherently focused on protecting both mobile and traditional devices from threats and data theft. Additionally, modern endpoint and EDR capabilities are capable of detecting a wide range of threats that place the user and their organization at risk. 

In this ‘’ Special Edition ‘’ threat report we take a deeper dive into COVID-19 related attacks. 

Table of Contents:

• Covid-19 Cyberthreat Timelines, Distribution and Detection 

• Threats To Sectors and Vectors 

• Malware Threats Statistics 

• Threat Actors Target the Cloud 

• Malware Phishing and Trojans 

• Ransomware 

• Spams and Scams

• Underground Marketplaces

• URL Scams

• Recommendations