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Zika virus fears exploited to spread malware

Low-life criminals are capitalizing on peoples fears of the Zika virus in order to infect computers with malware. A malicious spam email claims to be from a health and wellness website in Brazil. The subject of the email says, ZIKA VIRUS! ISSO MESMO, MATANDO COM GUA! The email itself uses imagery and text taken from a real article on Sade Curiosa. The clickable buttons in the email redirect users, via a bit.ly-shortened URL, to a Dropbox file that was downloaded 1,610 times between February 5th and February 18th.”]

Source: https://grahamcluley.com/zika-virus-fears-exploited-spread-malware/

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