Tech giant Google said the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has led to an explosion of phishing attacks, where cybercriminals lure users into revealing personal data.
Google said it is blocking almost 100 million phishing emails per day. Over the past week, 18 million of them were COVID-19 related.
Many of the emails impersonate as if they are coming from the World Health Organization.
So far in 2020, Americans lost $12 million to cybercriminals capitalizing on COVID-19.
Google’s gmail is used by 1.5 billion people.
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