A dramatic and sustained increase in malicious cyber activity looks set to outlast the immediate impact of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, with cyber attacks up by one-third at the end of June compared to March and April 2020, according to Check Point’s mid-year security report.
In the newly released Cyber attack trends: 2020 mid-year report, Check Point said that although Covid-19 attacks had increased dramatically from 5,000 a week in February to 200,000 a week at the height of the pandemic’s first wave, in May and June, as countries started to ease lockdown measures, cyber criminals stepped up their non-coronavirus-related exploits.
