Thieves and malicious hackers on the Internet have ramped up their attacks in recent days, according to cyber security experts who spoke to SurvivorNet. The scams are wide ranging and have increased in intensity with common denominator being the use of Coronavirus. Some of these malicious schemes involve email banner ads advertising toilet paper and hand sanitizer. At a time when so many people are vulnerable and consuming huge volumes of digital content these attacks a particular concerning.
For cancer patients, who are often among the most vulnerable people because of their depressed immune systems, experts are advising increased vigilance.
Read More Many of us are spending our days clicking around on digital content and receiving enormous amounts of emails about the coronavirus from hotel chains and vendors. Almost everybody in the world, it seems, wants to communicate to us that they are doing something about the coronavirus. For the SurvivorNet community, we are strongly urging caution. It is certainly despicable that bad actors will try to exploit these extremely anxious times. The digital outlet ZDNet has a useful roundup of these attacks. They report that, “The National Cyber Security Centre (a major British anti-cyber crime group) is warning that criminals are looking to exploit the spread of coronavirus to conduct cyberattacks and hacking campaigns. Experts at the NCSC the cyber arm of the British intelligence services have spotted a range of scams and cyber threats that look to take advantage of COVID-19 for their own malicious ends.
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