SolarWinds Findings Show Cybercriminals Capitalizing on Work-from-Home Measures During Coronavirus Outbreak—Including an Increase of Over 80% in Phishing and Malware Attacks
New figures released by SolarWinds MSP, taken from its global email security traffic findings, reveal an increased spike in threat attacks since the outbreak of COVID-19, with an increase of over 80% in phishing and malware attacks in March 2020. During this timeframe, SolarWinds® Mail Assure has detected and blocked approximately 10 million phishing attacks per week[1] with a filtering accuracy of over 99.999%.[2]