The pandemic caused by COVID-19 is being used by cybercriminals for their criminal activities online.
According to a Cytomic report, based on detecPhicions’ analysis of malware in March, it has detected two types of malicious campaigns: SPAM emails related to the coronavirus and malicious domains.
- Phishing that impersonates a bank: a campaign to send fraudulent emails impersonating the identity of an important Spanish bank. The aim of this phishing is to direct victims to a fake website in order to steal their bank login details.
- Latest updates of the coronavirus: The email comes with an attachment that “supposedly” contains the latest updates of COVID-19, but this file contains a malware.
- Coronavirus important precautionary information: Another email with a .doc (word) attachment, where apparently it is a document prepared by the World Health Organization (WHO) and strongly recommends readers to download the file, how much it is actually a trojan (Malware).
- Exclusive Coronavirus Vaccine Detected: an email that attaches a link to an external website informing us of a supposed “virus vaccine” which is “fake” and contains malware.
The following is a LIST OF MALICIOUS DOMAINS LINKED TO THE CORONAVIRUS
• acccorona [.] com
• alphacoronavirusvaccine [.] com
• anticoronaproducts [.] com
• beatingcorona [.] com
• cdc-coronavirus [.] com
• contra-coronavirus [.] com
• corona-crisis [.] com
• corona-emergencia [.] com
It is our duty to inform all our customers to be very careful about the COVID-19 related e-mails they receive during these days of confinement in order to avoid possible attacks or loss of personal data. We also have protection software to detect possible attacks.
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