COVID-19 Phishing Email Indicators

Summary

The FBI uncovered targeted email phishing attempts to harvest user credentials and compromise targets’ computer systems by exploiting fear derived from the COVID-19 pandemic. Through investigations, the FBI continues to identify multiple COVID-19 email phishing campaigns with malicious file attachments and URLs. The following associated indicators of compromise (IOCs) are being provided to assist in network defense.

This FBI FLASH contains an overview of the threat, indicators of compromise, and recommended mitigation measures to assist organizations in guarding against the persistent malicious actions of cyber criminals.

Reporting

The NJCCIC encourages recipients who discover signs of malicious cyber activity to contact the NJCCIC via the cyber incident report form by clicking here.

Please do not hesitate to contact the NJCCIC at njccic@cyber.nj.gov with any questions.