{"id":837,"date":"2021-07-05T10:29:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T10:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/espaco-digital.com\/elementor\/?p=837"},"modified":"2021-07-15T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T16:00:17","slug":"coronavirus-defenda-se-de-esquemas-informaticos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/espaco-digital.com\/en\/2021\/07\/05\/coronavirus-defenda-se-de-esquemas-informaticos\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus \u2013 Defend yourself from computer scams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like many of you, during these days I have been keeping an eye on the news and trying to balance between calm\/reality. In times like these, we are on the lookout for ways we can help the community, if only by staying home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bad news is that there is always someone taking advantage of situations like these to profit, trying to take advantage of people\u2019s sensitivity. As if we don\u2019t have enough problems already. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, many of us have been following websites that provide interactive maps of the evolution of the pandemic around the world. This is a good source of information that gives us an overview of the world picture. However, some cyber criminals have developed malware <\/a>and made it available for some malicious websites to use this information, to install on people\u2019s personal computers .jar<\/em> files \u2013 Java Files \u2013 that run directly in the browser and steal saved passwords. A warning will always be triggered before installing the software and if you allow it you may be installing this malware.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am also sure that many of you have received a lot of emails about Coronavirus, just like me. As many of us have opened these emails looking for information, cyber criminals have realized a new phishing<\/a><\/em>strategy. Since January this year more than 4000 email domains have been created related to Coronavirus. Emails coming from these domains are 50% more likely, when compared to other domains registered in the same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One way to defend yourself against this scam, is to always think twice before clicking on a link via email. It\u2019s okay to be skeptical of email! For example, if you receive an email from your bank with a link to the institution\u2019s website, open your browser and navigate to the institution\u2019s website and login directly to your account instead of the link in the email.<\/strong>Also watch out for email attachments that you don\u2019t expect to receive as malware can be hidden in .docx, .pdf or .mp4 files. .docx<\/em>, .pdf<\/em> ou .mp4<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you receive an email from a trusted agency, as the World Health Organization or your bank, be suspicious. Many domains have been created that look very similar to the originals of these institutions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Usually, phishing scams are based on their sense of urgency which leads to acting without thinking. This is when we need to calm down and carefully, analyze whether the email I received is authentic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is times like these, of stress and insecurity, that are providing to cyber criminal attacks, but preparing and carefully analyzing what we do online can prevent the worst.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Como muitos de voc\u00eas, durante estes dias tenho estado atento \u00e0s noticias e tentando balancear entre calma\/realidade. Em momentos como estes, estamos atentos a maneiras de podermos ajudar a comunidade, nem que seja apenas ficando em casa. As m\u00e1s noticias \u00e9 que h\u00e1 sempre algu\u00e9m a aproveitar situa\u00e7\u00f5es como estas para lucrar, tentando tirar vantagem … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Coronavirus – Defenda-se de esquemas inform\u00e1ticos”<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/espaco-digital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/espaco-digital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/espaco-digital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espaco-digital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espaco-digital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/espaco-digital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/espaco-digital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espaco-digital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/espaco-digital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espaco-digital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espaco-digital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}