Criminals and Coronavirus: FBI Warns of Email Scam

Fraudulent schemes centered around COVID-19 are becoming more and more prevalent. From selling negative tests on the black market to stolen vaccine intellectual property, the next scam might be in your inbox. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Division released a statement: The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a mass shift to telework among many US businesses, resulting in increased use of web-based email applications. According to recent FBI reporting, cybercriminals are implementing auto-forwarding rules on victims’ web-based email clients to conceal their activities. The web-based client’s forwarding rules often do not sync with the desktop client, limiting the rules’ visibility to


