Thursday, 5 March 2020
As if the threat of an epidemic wasn’t enough, now you also have to watch out for coronavirus-themed malware. That’s according to new research from security firm Check Point, which found coronavirus-themed domains are 50% more likely to spread malicious activity than other domains. [Read: CIA agents have been hacking China for 11 years, security firm claims] There have been over 4,000 coronavirus-themed domains registered since January. Out of those, 3% were flagged as malicious, and another 5% as suspicious — that’s 50% higher than the malicious rate of all other domains registered in the same period, including Valentine’s Day scams.…
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