A computer VIRUS that takes advantage of the widespread fear for the coronavirus arrived from China begins to flood the mail boxes of the users. The alarm part from a report from the Ibm X-Force Kaspersky out this week. Emails have attached files, pdf, mp4, and docx, that claim to be text based instructions or video on how to protect yourself from coronavirus, updates on the threat and even procedures to detect the infection.
If the attachments are open, with a program with the macro active, the virus runs. In particular, it is the malware ‘bank’ Emotet, one of the most dangerous in these months, and mostly spread by criminals via the mail. Emotet is particularly hungry for data access to online banking. Them are going to try on the victim’s computer where it is installed. The criminals can use them, often with the help of other attack techniques, to subtract money from the account of the user.
