Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has been one of the most trending
topics in 2020’s overall media. The virus’ first registers date
back to December 2019 in China, and its spread has affected more
than 50 million people around the world. Since social distance is the
most advisable recommendation by health organizations, companies
massively adopted remote work. The Internet became a huge
allied for several jobs maintenance, but it also increased social engineering
attacks based on the COVID-19 topic to steal sensitive
information and/or spread malicious code. In this paper, we review
the literature about phishing, malware and fake news that take
advantage of COVID-19 to distress users and organizations in order
to accomplish cyber attacks, and discuss their implications.