Not everything is awful in the coronavirus pandemic. Cybercrime is, at least, not exploding and cryptocurrency scammers are worse off.
“In short, while Covid-19 is providing some scammers with new fraudulent stories to entice victims, the cryptocurrency price drops spurred by the pandemic have drastically reduced the revenue potential of the biggest scams.”
Amongst the various cryptocurrency coronavirus-themed scams are phishing emails promising treatments for the virus and some blackmail attempts where crooks are claiming to have COVID-19 and threaten to spread it to the recipient’s family unless they pay.... [+]Meanwhile, Microsoft also had some good news to share on the COVID-19 cybercrime climate.
Microsoft also found that there hasn’t been an overall jump in cyberattacks during this unprecedented period. “Our data shows that these COVID-19 themed threats are retreads of existing attacks that have been slightly altered to tie to this pandemic. This means we’re seeing a changing of lures, not a surge in attacks,” it wrote in aNot that coronavirus-themed threats aren’t a concern. Microsoft found that China, Russia and the U.S.
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