{"id":102768,"date":"2020-07-21T21:01:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T04:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/?p=102768"},"modified":"2025-06-02T19:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T02:56:22","slug":"mcafee-covid-19-report-reveals-pandemic-threat-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/other-blogs\/mcafee-labs\/mcafee-covid-19-report-reveals-pandemic-threat-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"McAfee COVID-19 Report Reveals Pandemic Threat Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

The McAfee Advanced Threat Research team today published the McAfee\u00ae Labs COVID-19 Threats Report, July 2020.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

In this \u201cSpecial Edition\u201d threat report, we delve deep into the COVID-19 related attacks observed by our McAfee Advanced Threats Research and McAfee Labs teams in the first quarter of 2020 and the early months of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

What started as a trickle of phishing campaigns and the occasional malicious app quickly turned to thousands of malicious URLs and more-than-capable threat actors leveraging our thirst for more information as an entry mechanism into systems across the world.<\/p>\n

Thus far, the dominant themes of the 2020 threat landscape have been cybercriminal\u2019s quick adaptation to exploit the pandemic and the considerable impact cyberattacks have had. For example, many ransomware attacks have escalated into data breaches as cybercriminals up the ante by leaking sensitive, often regulated, data, regardless of whether victims have paid the ransom.<\/p>\n

Some of the other significant threat findings in our COVID-19 report include:<\/h2>\n