Pictured: President Donald Trump in the Presidential Suite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Oct. 3, after being diagnosed with COVID-19. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)
A go-to strategy among cyberattackers is developing phishing lures based on timely news events. Sure enough, threat researchers have spotted a moderate-volume malware campaign that’s been trying to trick users into downloading weaponized documents by promising the inside scoop on President Donald Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis.
Businesses should remind their employees to resist interacting with emails sent from unknown sources, especially when their subject lines and content promise inside information on current events. But the temptation is sometimes too much for users to resist.
“Everything we know and what we don’t about president’s COVID condition,” said one sample email from the campaign, which was reported by Proofpoint this week, which then provided a password to access the “coded” data.
Sherrod DeGrippo, senior director of threat research and detection at Proofpoint, told SC Media that the company over the past several months has seen an influx of phishing communications promising secret information about the virus.
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