Johns Hopkins University has provided a valuable resource for tracking novel Coronavirus infections, deaths and recoveries across the world from a single dashboard. Unfortunately it's not just valuable for people monitoring the pandemic--KrebsOnSecurity reported that malware distributors are using it to find victims.
The report indicated that cyber criminals have started to sell infection kits featuring this Coronavirus-tracking dashboard for anywhere from $200 to $700. Buyers could use those kits in malicious websites and emails to infect systems with the AZORult malware. Tracking a physical infection could lead to contracting a digital one.
This isn't the first time the Coronavirus outbreak has been used to spread malware. Spammers actually started taking advantage of it in January by claiming to offer information about how to avoid contracting the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Those messages included attachments that spread the Emotet malware when opened.
