Scammers behind business email compromise (BEC) attacks have adjusted their tactics to match the current situation given the COVID-19 outbreak. While normally, they’ve been attempting to convince victims to buy gift cards as a quick favor to one of their executives. Now they’ve switched to asking them for digital gift cards since brick and stone stores are now closed or a lot harder to reach due to lockdowns. Two Chinese nationals were charged in March for allegedly laundering millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency for the North Korean-backed Lazarus Group by converting them into Chinese yuan and Apple gift cards.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bec-gift-card-scams-switch-to-online-stores-due-to-pandemic/