Studying How Cybercriminals Prey on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Summary: Unit 42 researchers tracked 116,357 coronavirus-related newly registered domains from January 1 to March 31, 2020, of which 2,022 were malicious and 40,261 high-risk. Average daily coronavirus-related registrations rose 656% from February to March, with malicious registrations up 569% and high-risk registrations up 788%.
What you should know: An average malicious newly registered domain was queried 88% more than a non-malicious one, and the researchers recorded 2,835,197 DNS queries to these domains - attackers work their domains hard before blacklisting catches up.
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