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Phishing, SMS vaccine scams on the way: cyber experts – The Australian Financial Review
There has been a huge number of vaccine-related cyber attacks in the US, but specifically in Britain, primarily through phishing since the vaccinations began.
So you put in your username, you set up a password, you set up a time and date so to speak. And you need to also communicate or provide some documentation on who you are to be able to streamline the process now.
We saw a million of these emails go out in the UK about six weeks ago. It was picked up very quickly as there was over 1000 complaints within a 24 hour period, he said.
Mr Connory said it was believed the attacks came from Russia using compromised US infrastructure to hide the scams.
He…
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