Cybercriminals keen to cash in on vaccine interest

The past few months have seen plenty of news surrounding COVID-19 vaccines, from the buzz surrounding roll outs to fears of possible side effects. As always with a major news event cybercriminals seek to exploit the opportunity it presents. Cloud-native email security company GreatHorn has identified a new pattern of techniques being used to exploit the unease of vulnerable email users by spoofing critical vaccine information. From January this year both authentic and suspicious emails containing the word 'vaccine' have increased, but suspicious emails outpaced authentic emails by more than 50 percent of all email delivered. In the first week… [Continue Reading]