2021 set to be the year of the vaccine scammers
The roll out of vaccines is seen as the light at the end of the tunnel of the COVID-19 crisis, but like any major event it s also an opportunity for scammers and cybercriminals.
Deep learning-powered fraud prevention company Bolster has released a new report which finds that leading indicators foreshadow a raft of COVID-19 vaccine scams.
The research shows that the volume of new domain registrations containing the words vaccine, COVID, Moderna, Pfizer, and BioNTech experienced spikes, indicating that scammers are preparing to launch vaccine scam campaigns using typosquatting to continue capitalizing on the fear, uncertainty, and misfortune around the pandemic as the vaccine is rolled out.