Coronavirus: Spam exploits fear, widespread Emotet Malware
Security experts warn that is currently in front of Spam in the course of the Coronavirus pandemic. Instead of information on the topic of the threat of infection with Emotet Trojans.
Big issues in the news are gladly exploited by cyber criminals to send out optimized waves of Spam. So it also happens in the current outbreak of the new Coronavirus. Security experts have already seen various campaigns to try and the fear of the population to take advantage of.
In Japan, for example, experts from IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence observed a Spam campaign on the Coronavirus. In the E-mail was sent in the name of a social service provider, the urgent protective measures against infection. The recommendations for action were linked in a Word document that VBA Macros dangerous Emotet-can be used to install Trojans.
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