https://tech.newstatesman.com/security/why-cyber-espionage-is-soaring-during-the-coronavirus-crisis

On 2 March, just a week before Covid-19 was officially classified as a pandemic, employees at the World Health Organisation began receiving unusual emails. The series of messages, sent to their personal accounts, ostensibly came from Google. But, as Reuters reported last month, they had been sent by hackers working on behalf of the Iranian government.

Although it’s not clear if the phishing campaign was successful, the incident was one in a series of attempts, part of a 200 per cent rise in cyber attacks targeting the UN health agency, which has led the international response to the pandemic. Security experts believe the attacks could have been motivated by an assumption among some governments that the WHO may have known more than it publicly disclosed, and that there was valuable intelligence to be gained.