Nearly half a million Covid-related domains have been created over the last two years, many of them being used by online fraudsters. The pandemic has created an environment in which bad actors make use of a range of Covid-related “hooks” to commit cybercrime and fraud, impacting consumers and brands, explained CSC, a domain registrar that studied more than 478,000 domain names tied to pandemic keywords.
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Covid Domain Registrations Soar, Many by Bad Actors
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. January 26, 2022 04:26 AMNearly half a million Covid-related domains have been created over the last two years, many of them being used by online fraudsters. The pandemic has created an environment in which bad actors make use of a range of Covid-related “hooks” to commit cybercrime and fraud, impacting consumers and brands, explained CSC, a domain registrar that studied more than 478,000 domain names tied to pandemic keywords.