Security News > 2020 > September > Fake Zoom alerts and dodgy medical freebies among COVID-cracks detected by Taiwan's CERT

Taiwan's CERT detected cyber-crooks impersonating medical authorities to attack the country's tech industry during the early stages of the COVID pandemic.

"Attackers used COVID-19 social engineering to increase the success rate of their attacks," said TWCERT/CC director Chih-Hung Lin.

In June the group sent phishing emails offering free medical supplies to businesses.

"Although the email was in the traditional Chinese language we use in Taiwan, they claimed to be the National Health Commission, a name that is widely used in mainland China. So this is the first clue of where the attack possibly originated from," said TWCERT/CC security engineer Henry Chu.

Such attacks were not attempts to steal data but to disrupt access to critical data or systems, according to Lin.

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