Security News > 2020 > April > COVID-19 Lures Only a Fraction of Daily Phishing Emails
The number of COVID-19-themed attacks has increased significantly over the past couple of months, but they represent only a fraction of daily threats, security firms say.
At the moment, the tech giant is seeing roughly 60,000 phishing emails that carry COVID-19 related malicious attachments or malicious URLs each day.
Given the millions of malicious emails observed on a daily basis to target hundreds of thousands of users, that number amounts to less than two percent of the total volume of threats.
FireEye too has observed a similar shift in the threat landscape, but notes that only two percent of the malicious emails it detected in March had a COVID-19 theme.
Basically, the attackers only changed the lures, but did not increase the number of attacks.
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