Week in security with Tony Anscombe

With the rollouts of COVID-19 vaccines gaining speed, fraudsters deploy campaigns that attempt to relieve people of their data and money or spread false claims about the vaccines. Newly released statistics about romance scams paint a dire picture – losses stemming from this flavor of fraud are soaring during the pandemic. Exaramel, a backdoor discovered by ESET three years ago, has been used in attacks against IT companies in France.