Since a vaccine to COVID-19 was announced late last year, there have been several cyber-attacks against both its recipients and its distributors, undermining health care efforts.
Last month, it was widely reported that many cyber security threats were emerging in the form of Fake NHS Text Messages, but the dangers posed by online criminals and the methods they use continue to change. A variety of online scams are creating a unique hurdle for countries around the world in their vaccine efforts. Indeed, some cyber security experts say attackers are targeting people looking for information, with fake ads, emails, and notifications increasing public risk to APP scams, transaction fraud, as well as other threats.
Moreover, the risk of cyber-attacks doesn’t stop at fake vaccine information. Indeed, scams involving fake or illegally acquired vaccines are being investigated by some cyber security companies such as Check Point Software. And, outside of scams aimed at vaccine recipients, distributors have been targeted in recent weeks as well. Pfizer-BioNtech are one victim of this, after…
