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Bad actors send malware via Coronavirus maps

         

engine

12:01 pm on Mar 12, 2020 (gmt 0)

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Bad actors will stop at nothing to send you their malware and the latest wheeze is malware on Coronavirus world maps.

[thehackernews.com...]

tangor

2:32 pm on Mar 12, 2020 (gmt 0)

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Well, check your maps!

The bad folks keep finding new ways to do evil. Sigh.

Marshall

11:31 pm on Mar 12, 2020 (gmt 0)

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Seriously, do these people not have anything better to do.

engine

12:39 pm on Mar 13, 2020 (gmt 0)

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It seems they are also now sending spam emails to catch the unwary.
These include,
Confidential cure solution coronavirus
Covid-19 tax refund
Coronavirus covid-16 measure to save you, purporting to be from the WHO.
Covid-19 - now airborne, increased community transmission.
Donate to help support the fight against coronavirus.

[bbc.co.uk...]

Good to know the World Health Organisation has my e-mail address on file, just in case. lol

I don't doubt there will be many more catching the unwary, gullible, and vulnerable.

tangor

2:32 pm on Mar 13, 2020 (gmt 0)

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This is a wash-rinse-repeat aspect of grift. Nothing new, just more of it.

Yet, sometimes the window-dressing will catch the unwary ... and that is exactly why they keep on truckin'.

RhinoFish

3:46 pm on Mar 13, 2020 (gmt 0)

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A certain infection might be a righteous punishment...

NickMNS

3:52 pm on Mar 13, 2020 (gmt 0)

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This is a wash-rinse-repeat aspect of grift.

Yes exactly, just what the CDC and WHO has been advising, wash your hands frequently. Even the spammers got the message!

tangor

7:09 pm on Mar 13, 2020 (gmt 0)

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You bet! And will be back to milk the next crisis, thing of interest, whatever ... this is mostly social engineered malfeasance.

Or ...

See how clever I am taking from ...

Sad thing is they work twice as hard to NOT WORK ... Can you imagine what could be accomplished if all that was put toward something positive?