Security News > 2020 > September > You have to be very on-trend as a cybercrook – hence why coronavirus-themed phishing is this year's must-have look
Coronavirus-themed malicious emails were the standout feature of online naughtiness in the first half of 2020, according to infosec firm F-Secure - though overall volumes of phishing did decrease a touch.
Observed attack attempts included an Emotet banking trojan campaign targeting Japan in January after the nation confirmed its first coronavirus infection.
Email accounted for just over half of observed infection attempts in the first six months of the year, up from 43 per cent last year.
Intriguingly, the company also noted a spike in fake cloud email notifications targeting Office 365 users during April.
F-Secure called for the entire IT industry to "Work toward reducing the success rate of email as an attack vector, not only through technology enhancement, but also by companies evolving their cyber security strategies".