A report from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Center for Homeland Defense and Security investigates the potential for Russian malign influence campaigns, including those involving disinformation, that seek to take advantage of social, economic, and political divides in the U.S. that have been created or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The report inventories and categorizes the effects of the pandemic that could be leveraged and weaponized, also including scenarios of how these may manifest. According to the report, these scenarios may involve large cities with high density populations and high infection rates, which could be especially prone as targets of disinformation and in the aftermath of COVID-19. It concludes with a set of recommendations for countering malign foreign influence. With these, the report observed state and local communities are the first to see political movements and are potentially able to detect foreign influence. They can bring to these activities to the attention of federal counterparts, who they can also look to for help given their unique capabilities. Read the report at the NPS Center for Homeland Defense and Security.