As the world comes to grips with the coronavirus pandemic, the situation has proven to be a blessing in disguise for threat actors, who’ve taken advantage of the opportunity to target victims with scams or malware campaigns.
Now, according to a new report published by Check Point Research today and shared with The Hacker News, hackers are exploiting the COVID-19 outbreak to spread their own infections, including registering malicious Coronavirus-related domains and selling discounted off-the-shelf malware in the dark web.
“Special offers by different hackers promoting their ‘goods’ — usually malicious malware or exploit tools — are being sold over the darknet under special offers with ‘COVID19’ or ‘coronavirus’ as discount codes, targeting wannabe cyber-attackers,” the cybersecurity firm said.
COVID-19 Discounts: Exploit Tools for Sale
The report comes following an uptick in the number of malicious coronavirus-related domains that have been registered since the start of January.
“In the past three weeks alone (since the end of February 2020), we have noticed a huge increase in the number of domains registered — the average number of new domains is almost 10 times more…
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