The cases of the new Corona virus are increasing day by day, and the number of countries in which the virus appears is expanding, making the world's population fear that the virus will infect them, which hackers exploit to carry out cyber attacks.

Hackers exploit the horror caused by the Corona Virus to launch a "Corona Virus Scam" that allows scammers to infiltrate your gadgets by emails warning of a threat to the Corona Virus in your area, which is really a trick hackers use to install malicious software on your devices.

Security experts at IBM X-Force and Kaspersky unveiled this trick, called Emotet, one of the notorious malware that is believed to be part of a major cyber crime operation.

Emotate was first discovered in 2014, a Trojans program - malware disguised as a "safe" file such as a word or song document, attaching these dangerous files to seemingly harmless email messages in an attempt to trick victims into clicking Click it and download it.

In the new Corona Virus scam, hackers warn the victim that infected patients have been reported in his city or neighborhood.

The hackers then urge the victims to open a Word document to identify the city's injured, but the file contains malicious code that gives fraudsters control of the victim's machine.

As a result, hackers can spy on you, log onto your computer over the Internet, and install more dangerous malware.

Exploiting human feelings
Only the attack has been spotted in Japan so far, and observers believe that Japanese victims may have been targeted because of their proximity to China, but experts do not exclude the spread of this hoax globally.

It is very common for hackers to exploit feelings of fear and threat from disasters and diseases, especially if they cause terror and panic in the entire world.

Experts expect more malicious cyber attacks that exploit the fear of the Coruna virus in the future.

Javad Malik, KnowBe4 security expert, advises users to be careful in anything related to major news stories, emails, attachments, social media and text messages on the phone.

Experts believe that thousands of devices may have already been hacked by the SK virus malware campaign.