Microsoft Explains How It's Fighting Coronavirus-Related Cyber Attacks

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Microsoft published a blog post today explaining how it's defending Windows users against cyber attacks taking advantage of the novel coronavirus crisis.

This is a serious concern. Email spammers have used COVID-19 to convince people to download malicious attachments, malware distributors have co-opted an infection dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University and other scammers have set up tens of thousands of websites with domain names related to the pandemic.

But the problem shouldn't be blown out of proportion. "While phishing and other email attacks are indeed happening," Microsoft said, "the volume of malicious emails mentioning the coronavirus is very small." That might change as the pandemic continues, but at least for now there don't appear to be any large-scale attacks.