The coronavirus epidemic affects millions of lives, but it is coronavirus and is used to perform cyber attacks on millions of other people. Yes, cybercriminals use the disease to their advantage to try to make people laugh. That's something to consider: coronavirus makes us vulnerable to computer attacks, and here's why. However, it is also forcing tech companies to make the biggest tech improvements right now.
The threat of scandal has escalated to such an extent Gmail Artificial Intelligence detects an estimated 18 million scams related to coronavirus light. In fact, Google believes that coronavirus may be the biggest problem used in email fraud so far.
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Among these attacks are mainly phishing; that is, emails where the attackers try to give us specific information on a variety of strategies – the higher we are led to believe that they are a specific agency or person similar to our employer. As we've been able to confirm, for many hackers there thrives as a World Health Organization -BE by English interpretation-, though they use the image of other organizations to make their attacks.
But it's not just about the attacks that come phishingis also sent on the horizon -A program that records all files on your computer until you have paid a ransom- within Word documents that have a WHO release, and soliciting false donations on behalf of the same organization. WHO does not work with Bitcoin, so it will not ask for donations in those ways.
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According to Barracuda Networks, an online security company, this type of coronavirus-related attacks has grown by 667% from February to March, as we have seen a significant increase in January. However, Barracuda's stats aren't that bad with Google's stats: in March he "only" got a million scams of this kind. But this is caused by a level problem: this software It has a modest number of customers, while Gmail is used by 1.5 billion people worldwide.
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If you use Gmail you may have been attacked by these emails, but thanks to the app's Artificial Intelligence machine learning, you will have never seen one. This AI analyzes the content of emails -I'm anonymous- and get potential attacks and scams with 99% accuracy.
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