CYBER THREAT COVID-19
MARCH 18, 2020

A message from one of our clients.

We want to inform our clients about ongoing cyber-attacks on Canadian companies that are leveraging the Covid-19 global pandemic.

Cyber-Threat Actors are leveraging the Covid-19 in several ways:

  • Phishing Emails: Multiple emails are being observed with related themes as a lure for phishing and malware activity

  • Remote Workforce: Actors are taking advantage of the current state-of-emergency and work from home announcements with phishing campaigns to compromise corporate email

  • Financial Disruption: Several phishing emails are written to try to beat the stock market with investment knowledge and insight

Sample ‘Subject Lines’ attacking Canadian Companies:

  • Corona Virus is spreading – Learn how to survive

  • Corona Virus – Do this before it is too late…

  • Corona worse than Ebola?

  • EMERGENCY EMAIL

  • Feeling helpless against Corona?

  • Tips to work from home

  • How to be efficient working from home

  • Shared file in the cloud

  • Beat the Bull Market

Please pass this email along to all your employees and remind them to remain vigilant against these types of email phishing campaigns.

The material provided here is summarized from a security bulletin from the Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange.