COVID-19 (Coronavirus) hit the global society and economy with a big surprise. In particular, work-from-home has become a new norm for employees. Despite the fact that COVID-19 can equally attack innocent people and cybercriminals, it is ironic to see surges in cyberattacks leveraging COVID-19 as a theme, dubbed COVID-19 themed cyberattacks or COVID-19 attacks for short, which represent a new phenomenon that has yet to be systematically understood. In this paper, we make the first step towards fully characterizing the landscape of these attacks, including their sophistication via the Cyber Kill Chain model. We also explore the solution space of defenses against these attacks.

翻译：COVID-19(Corona病毒)给全球社会和经济带来巨大的惊喜,特别是从家到家的工作已成为雇员的新规范。尽管COVID-19可以同样攻击无辜的人和网络罪犯,但看到利用COVID-19(COVID-19)作为主题的网络攻击激增,称为COVID-19(COVID-19)的网络攻击或短期的COVID-19(COVID-19)攻击是具有讽刺意味的,这代表着一种尚未系统理解的新现象。在本文中,我们迈出了第一步,充分描述这些攻击的风景,包括通过网络杀手链模型的先进性。我们还探索了防御这些攻击的解决方案空间。