Security News > 2021 > March > Cyberattacks See Fundamental Changes, A Year into COVID-19

Email scamming is still one of the most effective types of attacks in the coronavirus era, according to Kaspersky, since fear and anxiety are two of the most-exploited emotions for this kind of social-engineering attack.

In 2020, delivery services entered the top ten most-spoofed organizations for these types of attacks, according to Kaspersky.

A year later, the number of attacks has not returned to pre-pandemic levels, Kaspersky noted: In February, there were 377.5 million brute-force attacks.

"The number of web attacks, after displaying a decline in the summer of 2020, reached a new peak in December as much of the world was facing a second wave of the pandemic," according to Kaspersky.

Most of these attacks involve malicious files being spread under the guise of these apps' names, Kaspersky found that in January, there were 1.15 million such files detected - the highest number since the lockdown began.

"RDP is not going anywhere - and neither are attacks against the protocol," the report concluded.

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