WARNING: Malicious Website Named Coronavirus COVID-19 Cases by Johns Hopkins University

The following was received as an alert message from the Massachusetts Health and Homeland Alert Network:

Title:       Malicious Website Named Coronavirus COVID-19 Cases by Johns Hopkins University

Alert Message:

Please note:  It has come to the Department of Public Health attention that a malicious website pretending to be a live map for Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins University is circulating on the internet waiting for unwitting internet users to visit the website. Visiting the website infects the computer with an information stealing program which can ex-filtrate a variety of sensitive data. Furthermore, anyone searching the internet for a Coronavirus map could unwittingly navigate to this malicious website.

Safe websites to visit which contain reliable information are:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

https://www.mass.gov/resource/information-on-the-outbreak-of-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19