The internet is awash with coronavirus FUD and malware, can Google and Twitter provide the cure? On January 22, the U.S. government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an alert for people to be aware of an increase in targeted Emotet malware attacks. It is the Emotet group that has been behind the first wave of coronavirus malware campaigns. Researchers at IBM X-Force, who first reported the Emotet coronavirus campaign, said that they expect to see "more malicious email traffic based on the coronavirus in the future, as the infection spreads." Mitigating the coronavirus malware infection riskAs always, the recommended mitigation against such Trojan-dropping malware is to not click on unsolicited links or open attachments to those emails.

Source: Forbes February 01, 2020 10:30 UTC