by Paul Ducklin
It’s not like cybercriminals to take advantage of a world event… and this is a rather large world event.
Since COVID-19 hit the headlines, we’ve covered a selection of coronavirus-related scams, phishing attacks and malware campaigns in which crooks have adapted existing sextortion emails, mobile malware and password stealing tricks to exploit people’s fear and uncertainty.
And measurements from SophosLabs show that the ones we’ve published as specific examples are just a few of many cyberscams that refer to corona or covid-19.
To help you stay on top of it all, SophosLabs plus our data science and threat response teams have created a “living article” where you can quickly access regularly updated information about the expanding “cybercorona” threat, including:
What to do?
Remember that not every cybercriminal is jumping on the coronavirus scamming wagon – in fact, we’re willing to bet that there are crooks focusing on crimes such as stealing PayPal accounts and hitting you with fake technical support calls who are rubbing their hands in glee right now.
Their glee comes from the prospect of people getting so distracted by the much more visible and widely-reported pandem ..
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