Security News > 2021 > January > Top Cyber Attacks of 2020

Nation-state hacker groups mounted attacks against organizations involved in the coronavirus pandemic response, including the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, some in an attempt to politicize the pandemic.

Even garden-variety cyber attacks like email phishing, social engineering, and refund theft took on a darker flavor in response to the widespread economic precarity brought on by the pandemic.

"Hackers were mostly trying to take advantage of people's fear by offering medical equipment like thermometers and masks for cheap, low-rate loan offers and fake government emails," said Mark Adams, a cybersecurity analyst and subject matter expert for Springboard's new Cyber Security Career Track.

The first T-Mobile attack of 2020 was confirmed in March 2020, when a cybercriminal gained access to employee email accounts and stole data on T-Mobile employees and some of its customers.

In April, hackers targeted top officials who were working on the global response to the pandemic.

Many of the attacks were phishing emails to lure WHO staff into clicking on a malicious link in an email that would download malware onto their device.

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