"The number of online holiday shoppers this year is expected to skyrocket due to the pandemic – and consequently, consumers can expect an onslaught of scams, phishing attacks and other malicious activities."

https://threatpost.com/scams-black-friday-cybercriminal-craze/161239/

"The Lazarus Group posed as job recruiters while Cerium targeted spear-phishing emails that masqueraded as missives from World Health Organization representatives, Microsoft said."

https://weartv.com/news/coronavirus/microsoft-russian-north-korean-hackers-target-vaccine-work-11-13-2020

Dear @CadburyUK

If you pay us in chocolate we will happily help you with this problem.

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/shoppers-warned-over-free-cadburys-19247377

cc @CadburyIreland our CEO is a Wexford man and will be in Ireland in the coming weeks to see his mother. He's in need of some amazing chocolate.

"On Thursday, the Delhi Police's cyber cell arrested five suspects who defrauded at least 27,000 applicants by depositing the registration fee of around Rs 1.09 crore in the Union Health Ministry's name."

https://www.dnaindia.com/delhi/report-fake-job-portals-cheated-27000-employed-people-collected-rs-109-crore-in-a-month-2854770

"The Qbot botnet is now spewing U.S. election-themed phishing emails used to infect victims with malicious payloads designed to harvest user data and emails for use in future campaigns."

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/qbot-phishing-lures-victims-using-us-election-interference-emails/