Use of Microsoft Office files to perpetrate cyber crime rises by 176 pc

Findings published by SonicWall Capture Labs’ threat research team on Monday say there has been an increase in ransomware, IoT malware attacks, opportunistic use of COVID-19 pandemic for phishing, and hiding of trojans in Microsoft Office files by cybercriminals.

Yet, there has been a decrease in malware volume in India and a few other countries. In India, malware volume fell 64%, but it does not imply that cyberspace here is safer. India’s malware rates plummeted in April, but by June had nearly reached Q1 levels, the mid-year update to the 2020 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report said.

The SonicWall Capture Labs report analyses threat intelligence data gathered from 1.1 million sensors in over 215 countries and territories.