Security News > 2020 > May > Cybercriminals exploiting the coronavirus to deploy infostealers
2020-05-11 13:36
Cybercriminals have been busy devising email campaigns that take advantage of the coronavirus outbreak.
In a blog post published Monday, Lastline said that it's detected a variety of threats centered around COVID-19, and many of these threats are infostealers.
Whether relatively old or new, these email-based threats have been updated to exploit the coronavirus.
Analyzing the activity of infostealers during March 2020, Lastline found that different threats were active on different dates.
Cybercriminals simply redesign existing email campaigns to take advantage of new areas, such as the coronavirus.