Researchers report 569% growth in malicious COVID-19 website registrations.
The malicious and dangerous domains came in myriad forms. Many sites hosting malware targeted Windows users, but a handful have been attacking Android users. One was Corona-virusapps[.]com and coronaviruscovid19-information[.]com, which were hosting data-stealing malware aimed at Google’s operating system. Last week, researchers discoveredMany scam sites tended to focus on supplies that’ve been in demand, such as allsurgicalfacemask[.]com and selectsanitizer[.]com.
“People should be highly skeptical of any emails or newly-registered websites with COVID-19 themes, whether they claim to have information, a testing kit, or a cure. Special care should be taken to examine domain names for legitimacy and security, such as ensuring it is the legitimate domain,” Palo Alto researchers wrote in their report.
“Similar care should be taken with any COVID-19 themed emails - a look at the sender’s email address often reveals the content is likely not legitimate, as it’s either unknown to the recipient, mis-spelled, or suspiciously long with random seeming characters.” Earlier this week, a division of British spy agency GCHQ revealed it had shut down 2,000 COVID-19 scams. The
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