Cybercriminals do not have brakes. It’s about Pope Francis
One example was the link in the article with false information, which led to the fake Google page promoting fraud with gift cards – its goal was to extort money or sensitive data. In turn, on Tiktok it could be heard that the death of the Pope was a mystification, which was to encourage to make content available on the web. The so -called Deepfaces, or paintings generated by artificial intelligence that depicted the pope.
Fraudsters hunt for Internet users’ emotions and feed on a media noise
Attacks of this type gain strength around large media events, thanks to which fraudsters use people’s curiosity to lure unconscious users to malicious websites.
– Cybercriminals feed on chaos and curiosity. Every time an important event occurs, we observe a rapid increase in the number of frauds, which are aimed at using public interest – told Politico.eu Rafa Lopez, Security Engineer at Check Point.
Check Point analysts call this phenomenon « Newsproof opportunism »i.e. using loud events to lure your potential victims. This phenomenon was particularly intensified during the Covid-19 pandemic when Google recorded up to 18 million messages a day related to coronavirus, which contained links to malware or were phishing.
Sources: politico.eu
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