<p>A growing remote workforce makes every step of response harder. The COVID-19 pandemic hasn&#39;t changed the fundamentals, but it has created new opportunities for cybercriminals: an uptick in content-oriented attacks that target the people in your organization&mdash;especially with emotional pleas. In April, the World Health Organization reported dealing with&nbsp;<em>five times&nbsp;</em>more cyberattacks than usual.</p><p>&quot;Security teams have to learn to sift through what they didn&#39;t have to sift through before,&quot; says J.J. Thompson, senior director of managed threat response at Sophos.</p><p>Google&#39;s Threat Analysis Group warns that phishing attacks directed at the general public are masquerading as government services. &quot;In a post-pandemic world, it&#39;s [still] going to be email and communication boards, social engineering attacks ... [but] they&#39;re going to have a much better uptake rate.&quot; COVID-19-related attacks&mdash;like phishing attempts disguised as COVID test results&mdash;are particularly dangerous. &quot;We all have a more porous social engineering filter than we had before,&quot; the group says.</p>