An increase of 30,000% in pandemic-related malicious attacks and malware was seen in March by security researchers at cloud security firm Zscaler when compared to the beginning of 2020 when the first threats started using COVID-19-related lures and themes.
On any given day, Zscaler's cloud security products are processing more than 100 billion transactions from over 4,000 enterprise customers, with 400 of them being on Forbes' Global 2000 list of the world’s largest public companies.
Roughly 380,000 malicious attacks and malware were detected during March 2020 said Deepen Desai, VP Security Research & Operations at Zscaler, in a
blog post.
"No, that is not a typo. Since January, we have seen an increase of 30,000% in phishing, malicious websites, and malware targeting remote users—all related to COVID-19," he said. "In January, we saw (and blocked) 1,200 such attacks. How many did we see in March? 380,000!"
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