On the sidelines of the Covid-19 epidemic, it seems that the Web is plagued by cyber attacks based on fear of the coronavirus. Caution is more important than ever!
While the toll of the Covid-19 coronavirus epidemic on February 23, 2020 is approaching the bar of 80,000 cases for just under 2,500 deaths , another "infection" this time concerns the Internet. A US-based cybersecurity company named Proofpoint recently released a rather enlightening report. It turns out that hackers are using the fear of the epidemic of coronavirus in order to reinforce their attacks!
Experts point to campaigns promising to uncover a conspiracy around Covid-19. This is information sometimes embellished with maps revealing the latest outbreaks of infection. Obviously, these data are presented as deliberately concealed by governments.
It is true that since the start of the Covid-19 epidemic, fake news has been very present on the Internet. Recall that a man in India went so far as to kill himself after drinking many questionable videos about the epidemic. However, it is a question here of playing on this ground in order to encourage Internet users to install malware (e.g. Trojan horse) present in attachments, in order to recover sensitive data.
Sherrod DeGrippo, manager at Proofpoint explains that some programs can record keystrokes by Internet users before communicating them to hackers. Thus, hackers can have access to passwords and therefore possibly to online bank accounts. It could be malware Emotet and AZORult but also other programs such as AgentTesla Keylogger and NanoCore RAT. However, the latter particularly target banking data.
In addition, hackers even go so far as to cure their scam by giving an official appearance to the documents . For example, the names of well-known companies are included, beyond the presence of links directing the Internet user to alleged information published by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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