New York (CNN Business) Criminals are exploiting the public's fears about the coronavirus to try to break into their email, social media, and banking accounts, cybersecurity experts have warned. Hackers are sending emails purporting to provide information about the coronavirus but are designed to trick people into handing over their passwords, experts at the leading cyber threat intelligence firm FireEye said Thursday. "We've seen financially motivated actors using coronavirus themed phishing in many campaigns, with dramatic month-over-month volume increases from January through to today," FireEye said in a brief prepared for media and shared with CNN Business. But rarely does an event garner so much shared global interest and concern as the coronavirus, he said. Hackers, in turn, may try to mimic those messages, Read said.

Source: CNN March 12, 2020 22:07 UTC