McAfee COVID-19 Report Reveals Pandemic Threat Evolution

McAfee Labs' July 2020 COVID-19 Threats Report analyzes pandemic-related cyber activity in Q1 2020 and early pandemic months, documenting a rapid shift from isolated phishing and malicious apps to thousands of malicious URLs, an average of 375 threats per minute, a sharp rise in PowerShell-based malware, and ransomware attacks that often resulted in data breaches; the report includes IOCs, Yara rules, and MITRE ATT&CK mappings and highlights impacts on public, individual, and education sectors.