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The coronavirus crisis has provided fresh opportunity for online scammers to target newly unemployed and financially vulnerable workers, and now employers as well.

Expect to see a spike in hacking and fraud attempts, as the circumstances make for convenient Trojan horses in the shape of fake resumes for companies, fake job offers, fake unemployment sites, and fake mortgage offers for individuals.

Initial attacks targeted weak home internet security and capitalized on people’s fear of the novel coronavirus. The next wave of scams target Americans by going after their stimulus checks and unemployment benefits.

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Just before the outbreak, cybersecurity firm Prevailion uncovered a scam in Germany. In the scam, a very sophisticated hacker organization sent malware in attachments to a company’s HR department designed to get past standard phishing-software.

Typically, companies are instructed not to open attachments coming from outside the organization, but the