Security News > 2020 > October > Phishing Lures Shift from COVID-19 to Job Opportunities

Cybercriminals cashed in on the surge of COVID-19 earlier this year, with email lures purporting to be from healthcare professionals offering more information about the pandemic.

As the year moves forward, bad actors are continuing to swap up their attacks with savvy lures that match top-of-mind current events, said Derek Manky, Chief of Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances at Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

Researchers are seeing ongoing email based attacks that tap into new job opportunities - as businesses start to open up - with job candidates lures.

"As jobs started to be recreated in the industry we saw lures targeting candidates for jobs - in fact, man-in-the-middle attacks were intercepting emails based on job offers," he said.

Manky talks to Threatpost host Cody Hackett about the rise of web-based threats, the continuance of low-volume, high-risk, targeted ransomware attacks and other security threats of this quarter, in this week's sponsored podcast episode.

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https://threatpost.com/phishing-lures-shifting-from-covid-19-to-job-opportunities/160143/