02.03.2020

Coronavirus (COVID-19) and cyber fraud on the Internet

Coronavirus (COVID-19) and cyber fraud on the Internet

Friends, recently, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) has been written and talked about. Of course, the topic of coronavirus and the panic around the new virus interested unscrupulous people and cyber fraudsters on the Internet.

Coronavirus and COVID-19 Domain Names

Today, thousands of domain names are already registered that are associated with the words Coronavirus or COVID-19. Most of these domains are used to create online stores selling "effective" masks from coronavirus, tests for detecting the virus at home and vaccines for treatment and prevention. Of course, such sales announcements also appear on bulletin boards on the Web.

Another part of the domains is used by scammers for spam mailings, phishing, the spread of viruses and trojans. So, a big cyber attack was in Japan, where under the guise of important information from the authorities about the coronavirus Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the application there was a trojan that was downloaded to the victims' local machines.

Fakes and real facts about COVID-19

Another problem that is associated with the new virus is fakes about the coronavirus COVID-19. Here we must pay tribute to the Google search engine, which before the search results related to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) displays links and tips taken from the authoritative website of the World Health Organization (WHO) - who.int.


The World Health Organization website has a useful section with myths and real facts about the Coronavirus (COVID-19). You can read all the myths and misconceptions on the WHO page, here are some fakes and real facts from WHO:

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