While most of the country was focused on finding toilet paper, hand sanitizers and disinfecting wipes as the coronavirus hit, state cybersecurity experts had their eyes trained on new threats relating to the pandemic.  

Krista Valenzuela, a senior cyberthreat intelligence analyst for the New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell, said her unit saw more malicious email traffic at the start of COVID-19 than it did in the first two months of the year.