Hackers are using coronavirus fears to send you a computer virus: Here’s how to stop them


Hackers often use current events and compelling verbiage to get people to open emails, download attachments or tap links. Since coronavirus is a hot topic, it’s no surprise that bad actors would use the widespread illness to prey on people’s fears, experts say. — CDC/AP

As coronavirus continues to spread across the globe sickening thousands of people in its wake, a malicious strain of software is seeking to take advantage of people’s fears.

Researchers with IBM X-Force and Kaspersky have discovered that hackers are sending spam emails to people in the hopes of infecting smartphones and computers with malicious software.

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