Google: Millions 0f Malicious Emails About Coronavirus Every Day. Hackers and cybercriminals are responding a lot to the coronavirus.
The email service Gmail sees an average of 18 million emails every day with malicious links and attachments and emails with phishing attempts, in which the senders say something about the coronavirus.
In addition, 240 million spam emails about the virus are sent every day. Parent company Google says 99.9 percent of all spam, phishing and malware is blocked before the user receives them.
Some emails are supposedly from the World Health Organization,
WHO. It asks, for example, for donations, or to open an attachment containing important information about the virus.
If a receiver does that, the senders can install malicious software. In other emails, someone is asked by ‘human resources’ to fill in a form to continue working at home.