World News – CA – COVID-19-themed cyberattack detections increased 605% in Q2: McAfee

Cybercriminals have taken advantage of COVID-19, adjusting their cybercrime campaigns aimed at luring their victims with pandemic-based themes and exploiting the realities of people working from home

As a result, the second quarter of 2020 saw detections of pandemic-themed cyberattacks increase by 605% from the previous quarter, says McAfee, a device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, in its recent study on the cybercrime activity conducted using over 1 billion sensors in India and other geographies

The company also saw an average of 419 new threats per minute, with the overall number of new malware samples increasing by 115% It saw PowerShell malware increasing by 117% due to the proliferation of malicious Donoff documents; the new Coinmining malware increased by 25%; new Linux malware increased 22% due to Gafgyt and Mirai’s Internet of Things activity; mobile malware increased by 15% thanks to the boom in Android Mobby Adware; Publicly disclosed security incidents increased 22%, and incidents targeting the tech industry increased 91%, report says

« The second quarter of 2020 saw continued developments in innovative threat categories such as PowerShell malware and the rapid adaptation of cybercriminals to target organizations through employees working from remote environments » , said Raj Samani, chief researcher at McAfee

« What started as a trickle of phishing campaigns and the occasional malicious app quickly turned into a deluge of malicious URLs, attacks on cloud users, and capable threat actors pulling out started with the global thirst for information on COVID-19 as a mechanism of entry into systems around the world, ”he added

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