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title: "There’s More Than Just COVID-19 Phishing Emails Out There | Phish Protection"
description: "COVID-19 is certainly grabbing the majority share of the headlines today. And why not? Afterall, it is a worldwide pandemic."
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If you've been paying attention, you'll also notice \_COVID-19 is responsible for a majority of the phishing email headlines\_. And why not? Afterall, hackers tend to "follow the news," so it's not surprising the \[dramatic increase\](/blog/hackers-leveraging-other-services-to-supercharge-coronavirus-phishing-scams/) in \*\*coronavirus-themed phishing emails\*\*.

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_COVID-19 is certainly grabbing the majority share of the headlines today_. And why not? Afterall, it is a worldwide pandemic.

If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll also notice _COVID-19 is responsible for a majority of the phishing email headlines_. And why not? Afterall, hackers tend to “follow the news,” so it’s not surprising the [dramatic increase](/blog/hackers-leveraging-other-services-to-supercharge-coronavirus-phishing-scams/) in **coronavirus-themed phishing emails**.

In fact, you could get the idea that coronavirus-themed phishing emails are the only **phishing email attacks** happening today, or at least the majority of them. Nothing could be further from the truth.

![Phishing prevention](https://media.mailhop.org/phishprotection/images/2020/04/phishing-prevention-1347.jpg) 

_Despite Microsoft [claiming](https://www.securityweek.com/covid-19-lures-only-fraction-daily-phishing-emails) to see 60,000 phishing emails each day that carry COVID-19 related malicious attachments or malicious URLs_, such emails represent only a small fraction of the total number of daily **phishing emails**. According to Microsoft, “given the millions of malicious emails observed on a daily basis to target hundreds of thousands of users, that \[COVID-19\] number amounts to less than **two percent of the total** volume of threats.”

FireEye [agrees](https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/04/limited-shifts-in-cyber-threat-landscape-driven-by-covid-19.html). According to the company, “_COVID-19 content is still only used in two percent of malicious emails._”

According to Microsoft, _the overall volume of phishing emails is remaining relatively constant_. What’s changing is the number **leveraging the fear** over COVID-19\. How are they capitalizing on the fear? “Attackers are impersonating established entities like the World Health Organization (WHO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Department of Health to get into inboxes.”

Interestingly, the technology behind these coronavirus-themed phishing emails hasn’t changed at all. According to Microsoft, “COVID-19-themed threats are, in fact, retreads of existing attacks, altered to fit the current trend. Basically, _the attackers only changed the lures, but did not increase the number of attacks_. Trickbot and Emotet operators are highly active, rebranding their lures to take advantage of the coronavirus outbreak.” Same gift, new wrapper.

![Phishing definition](https://media.mailhop.org/phishprotection/images/2020/04/phishing-definition-1354.jpg) 

The good news, if there is any, is that the same technology that can protect you from the “old” phishing emails can also protect you from the new coronavirus-themed phishing emails. Technology like that available from [Phish Protection](/).

_Phish Protection works to protect you and your employees because it doesn’t care about the lure_. So, whether the email is based on COVID-19 or something else doesn’t matter, because **Phish Protection** technology ignores all that and looks “under the hood” of the email. It investigates attachments and links, and if they’re malicious, _it blocks the email from ever reaching your inbox, no matter what the message in the email is_.

_Phish Protection works with all major email providers, takes 10 minutes to set up and only costs pennies per employee per month_. Protect your employees from COVID-19 emails while they protect themselves from the real thing.

## Topics

[ Phishing ](/tags/phishing/) 

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[ Brad Slavin ](/authors/brad-slavin/) 

General Manager

Founder and General Manager of DuoCircle. Product strategy and commercial lead across DuoCircle's 2,000+ customer base.

[LinkedIn Profile →](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradslavin) 

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