The Wuhan coronavirus continues to spread and create anxiety across the globe, allowing malicious individuals and groups to exploit the situation to spread fake news, malware and phishing emails.
Malicious coronavirus-themed campaings
IBM X-Force says that Japanese users have been receiving fake notifications about the coronavirus spreading in several prefectures, purportedly sent by a disability welfare service provider and a public health center.
The emails contains legitimate information taken from those services’ official websites and carries an attached .doc file that ostensibly contains more information.
“The content of the document itself is just an Office 365 message, instructing the viewer to enable the content (which is malicious), in case the document has been opened in protected view,” the researchers explained. The delivered malware is the
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