Digital Smarts - Cybercrooks Are Working Overtime

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As if you needed any more reasons to wish 2020 was over, the cybersecurity folks have even more for you to worry about. Tens of thousands of web domains related to the coronavirus pandemic are being created daily, reports ZDNet's David Gewirtz, who gathered several more unsettling statistics. Nine in 10 of those new domains are related to scams, including the intention to distribute malware, sell fake cures for COVID-19, and pass on more misinformation about the disease and other issues in the world.