Special offers are also being sold over the dark net under special offers with “COVID19” or “coronavirus” as discount codes.
Since the beginning of January, over 16,000 new coronavirus-related domains were registered and since the end of February 2020 the average number of new domains is almost 10 times more than found in previous weeks. “We’ve found that Coronavirus-related domains are 50% more likely to be malicious than other domains. “Cyber-criminals are always looking for ways to target consumers and often play on genuine public fears, as seen recently with the rise of malicious spam relating to 2019-nCoV disease,” said Dror Levy, head of consumer sales at Check Point.
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