No Holiday for COVID-19 Themed Scams

There are no signs of “sheltering in place” by cyber criminals masquerading behind COVID-19 schemes. Email fraud is still moving full steam ahead according to the latest report by Agari which reported an increase of “3,000% in phishing attacks using COVID-19 as a theme between March and June.”

The H2 2020 Email Fraud & Identity Deception Trends report also reported a 70% increase in scams originating from free webmail accounts.

Read more about combating these schemes in the office and at home via the SoS Daily News.

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