Security News > 2020 > March > Coronavirus warning spreads computer virus

Of course, the WHO website wouldn't ask for your email password - it's a public information website, after all, not a webmail service, so it has no need for your email details.

The crooks were hoping that because their website looked exactly like the real thing - in fact, it contained the real website, running in a background browser frame with the illicit popup on top - you might just put in your email details out of habit.

Because there are documented infections in your area [] we strongly recommend that you read the document attached to this message!

The "Content" you will activate by clicking the button is not the document itself - you're already looking at the document part, after all - but the macros hidden in it.

The macros in this document aren't anything to do with your company's workflow - they make up the malicious software code that the crooks want to run.

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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/03/05/coronavirus-warning-spreads-computer-virus/