Folks, as the Covid-19 or Corona Virus takes hold around the world and we grapple with news of cancellations of sports and other events we may look forward to during the day and evening, the fact is, people will take that to their advantage to take money from you, or even be an annoyance. An article I read from Krebs On Security talks about the fact that people are delivering malware to unsuspecting victims, even with the real maps and the like on where this very dangerous virus is taking place.
This virus is nothing we’ve grappled with before, and while we’re irritated that places we go or events we enjoy are cancelled for the better of the spreading of this virus, we must be conscious of the fact we could get things in our email about the virus.
I believe I’ve posted before on this blog we’ve got a lot to worry about.
The words link to various blog postings where I specificly talk about the Corona Virus, and you can search to find them all and see what is relevant. This new article I read today Live Coronavirus Map Used to Spread Malware is the next step where these actors are now using real things to deliver their payload.
We’ve got enough to deal with besides defending ourselves physically from this outbreak, we do not need actors delivering other things on top of what we’re needing to do. Its opportunity knocking, they say. Please be careful!
Cybercriminals constantly latch on to news items that captivate the public’s attention, but usually they do so by sensationalizing the topic or spreading misinformation about it. Recently, however, cybercrooks have started disseminating real-time, accurate information about global infection rates tied to the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic in a bid to infect computers with malicious software.
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Yes, I’m seeing tons of email from merchants, and they’re doing the best they can. This is definitely unpresented, and its getting interesting.
Hmmm not seen any spams or scams from this as such.
But there have been a few bits and bobs.
Both thunderbird my email client and waterfox my web brouser updated today.
And sadly the company they are dealing with called system1 seems to be bing spaciffic, so looks like they are selling out to microsoft and all their addware even though they say no.
Noscript classic and google.com on this brouser just crash out and I have had to get rid of noscript which I guess with all the other security I have is ok,.
I did try firefox and the modern waterfox and noscript but can’t make sence of any of its dialogs so went back to old waterfox classic.
Everyone else is running without noscript, and just privacy badger, https everywhere and ublock so I guess I will to.
As for breaches, not seen any yet but google has upped their antispam system.
Usually per week 2 in 300 messages are being flagged as spam.
Now its 5-10 in 100 messages per day.
I have so far recieved several at least 2 messages from my blind organisation and one of my apartment stores warning about the virus and expect more to continue.