Global COVID-19 Pandemic And Cybercrime Threats

Cyble Research Unit summarizes ongoing COVID-19–themed cyber activity: widespread phishing and spam leveraging pandemic lures, multi-stage APT27 campaigns using malicious LNK/CAB/XSL/VBScript chains, distribution of commodity info-stealers (Agent Tesla, Lokibot, Hawkeye, etc.), ransomware incidents (Maze, Netfilim) with exposed data, and broad targeting of healthcare, government, and WFH users — recommending heightened vigilance and security measures.