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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday February 08 2020, @03:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the people-still-click-on-links-in-email? dept.

Phishers impersonate WHO, exploit coronavirus-related anxiety - Help Net Security:

Media outlets are reporting daily on the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan and the emergency repatriation of foreign citizens that found themselves in the thick of it.

As cases of the virus infection keep popping up across the world – demonstrating just how small (i.e., well-connected) our planet is – so do fake news and videos about the situation on social media, as well as malware, phishing schemes and other scams in people’s inboxes.

The latest example of the latter are fake emails purportedly coming from the World Health Organisation (WHO), which is, ironically, engeaged in fighting an “infodemic” of fake coronavirs-themed news online.

The email, spotted by the Sophos Security Team, uses a trick lately favored by phishers and scammers: “Click here to download safety measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.”

The link takes the potential victim to a compromised web page containing a frame that renders the legitimate WHO page, which currently and prominently sports a link to information about this novel coronavirus.

Unfortunately, it also shows a simple pop-up asking the potential victim to “verify” their email by entering their email address and password. Those who fall for the trick are redirected to WHO’s legitimate page, while their email login credentials end up in the phishers’ hands.


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  • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday February 08 2020, @08:14PM

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Saturday February 08 2020, @08:14PM (#955771) Journal
    Anyone who falls for this stupidity deserves to have to get a new email address. Or better yet, their email privileges revoked for a year.
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