Coronavirus: Agencies warn of COVID-19 email scams as people work from home

Coronavirus: Agencies warn of COVID-19 email scams as people work from home

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https://www.siliconvalley.com/2020/03/13/coronavirus-agencies-warn-of-covid-19-email-scams-as-people-work-from-home/

With workers across the country doing their jobs at home to comply with government coronavirus recommendations and employer policies, federal agencies warn that scammers are exploiting the outbreak to target both businesses and consumers.

The U.S. Secret Service this week issued a bulletin warning that criminals have been employing email “phishing” scams against consumers. IBM’s “X-Force” cybersecurity unit recently discovered one such campaign against businesses “in which the outbreak of a biological virus is used as a means to distribute a computer virus” by “urging its victims into opening an attached Word document, described as a supposed notice regarding infection-prevention measures.”