This malware collects information stored in web browsers, particularly cookies, browsing histories, user IDs, passwords, and even cryptocurrency keys.
A Cybersecurity company released a threat analysis report detailing a new attack that takes advantage of Internet users' increased craving for information about the novel coronavirus that is wreaking havoc worldwide.
The malware attack specifically aims to target those who are looking for cartographic presentations of the spread of COVID-19 on the Internet, and tricks them to download and run a malicious application that, on its front-end, shows a map loaded from a legit online source but in the background compromises the computer.
Legitimate online source to visualize and track reported coronavirus cases in the real-time is:
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
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