Security News > 2021 > January > How scammers are exploiting COVID-19 vaccines

The rollout of vaccines for the coronavirus has been a much-needed piece of good news following the devastating effects of the pandemic in 2020.

A report published Thursday by fraud prevention company Bolster looks at the latest ways in which bad actors are capitalizing on the new vaccines.

In its research, Bolster found that 12,490 domains containing either the word "Vaccine" or both of the words "Vaccine" and "COVID" were registered in 2020.

The actual vaccines may be relatively new, but this uptick in related registrations started in the first quarter of 2020 and then spiked in March when the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic.

The FDA has approved two vaccines in the US-one created by Pfizer in partnership with BioNTech and a second from Moderna.

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