Fake Fedex and UPS delivery issues used in COVID-19 phishing

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As people socially isolate and work from home, shopping online and home deliveries have increased.

Scammers are capitalizing on this by creating new scams using Coronavirus delivery issues as a lure to get people to visit malicious links or open malware.

In a new report by Kaspersky, researchers see a new wave of phishing scams that utilize a COVID-19 theme and impersonate well-known shipping carriers such as FedEx, UPS, and DHL.
Full report by Kaspersky:
 

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