- Aug 17, 2014
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A new phishing email is trying to take advantage of the Coronavirus pandemic and the race to develop medications by promoting a fake Folding@home app that installs an information-stealing malware.
Folding@home is a well-known distributed computing project that allows users to download software that uses CPU and GPU cycles to research new drug opportunities against diseases and a greater understanding of various diseases.
As the COVID-19 epidemic spreads throughout the world, Folding@home has added over 20 new projects focusing on coronavirus research and has seen a huge increase in usage by people all over the world.
Scammers take advantage of a good thing
With the rise in popularity of Folding@home, security researchers at ProofPoint have discovered a new phishing campaign that pretends to be from a company developing a cure for Coronavirus.
These emails have a subject of "Please help us with Fighting corona-virus" and state that they want you to help "speed up our process of finding the cure" by downloading and installing the Folding@home client.
Folding@home is a well-known distributed computing project that allows users to download software that uses CPU and GPU cycles to research new drug opportunities against diseases and a greater understanding of various diseases.
As the COVID-19 epidemic spreads throughout the world, Folding@home has added over 20 new projects focusing on coronavirus research and has seen a huge increase in usage by people all over the world.
Scammers take advantage of a good thing
With the rise in popularity of Folding@home, security researchers at ProofPoint have discovered a new phishing campaign that pretends to be from a company developing a cure for Coronavirus.
These emails have a subject of "Please help us with Fighting corona-virus" and state that they want you to help "speed up our process of finding the cure" by downloading and installing the Folding@home client.
Folding@home Phishing email
