Campaigns of this type often appear around the main news events, when hackers arouse curiosity and emotional reactions to try to attract users without distrust to fraudulent websites.
“Cybercriminals thrive on chaos and curiosity,” said Rafa Lopez, security engineer at Check Point. “Whenever a major information event occurs, we see a strong increase in scams designed to exploit the public interest.”
The researchers called this “cyber-menace opportunism”, a phenomenon that increased during the COVVI-19 pandemic, when Google identified 18 million malware and Gmail messages per day linked to the pandemic.
The parent company of Instagram Meta and Tiktok did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
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