New “phishing” campaign takes advantage of the Omicron variant

The Omicron variant is scaring the whole world a bit. And phishing-related cybercrimes are on the rise.

Just think of the fact that European companies spend, on average, about 680 thousand euros every year to combat the phenomenon.

Thus a new criminal attitude that unites the two unhappy arguments is doubly alarming. We are talking about the scam emails on the Omicron variant, reported by the researchers of the Bitdefender Antispam Lab and also arrived in Europe.

Let’s find out what scam it is, why it is so dangerous and how you can defend yourself. But first let’s remember what the phenomenon of phishing is generically.