Some corona related domains we should avoid. (Warned by DCP Cybercrime)

[sujonali1819]

Today during browsing twitter I have found a post from DCP Cybercrime where they listed some Corona related potentially dangerous domains and warned people to not use these sites. And I am sharing here the domains list. So that all we can aware of it to save our personal data and money.

Code:

coronavirusstatus[.]space
coronavirus-map[.]com
blogcoronacl.canalcero[.]digital
coronavirus[.]zone
coronavirus-realtime[.]com
coronavirus[.]app
bgvfr.coronavirusaware[.]xyz
coronavirusaware[.]xyz
corona-virus[.]healthcare
survivecoronavirus[.]org
vaccine-coronavirus[.]com
coronavirus[.]cc
bestcoronavirusprotect[.]tk
coronavirusupdate[.]tk

source:
1. DCP Cybercrime
2. DCP Cybercrime

[UserU]

To be frank, there are like over 100K COVID-related domains. The list above is like a drop in the ocean

Pity those security researchers that have to filter through all of them. And they're mushrooming like crazy.

[20kevin20]

Funny how these websites freely exist on the entire Google Search engine, yet any Coronavirus related YouTube video gets demonetized.

Most Many sketchy websites are hosted on non-common domains such as ".xyz". If you see such domains, you should question the website from the beginning. Not saying all of them are full of malware or fake, but most of them unfortunately are.

[UserU]

Funny how these websites freely exist on the entire Google Search engine, yet any Coronavirus related YouTube video gets demonetized.

Most Many sketchy websites are hosted on non-common domains such as ".xyz". If you see such domains, you should question the website from the beginning. Not saying all of them are full of malware or fake, but most of them unfortunately are.

Yup, and also today I came across one with a .country extension. I was a little surprised.

[asu]

OP,  try to add your thread here.

Funny how these websites freely exist on the entire Google Search engine, yet any Coronavirus related YouTube video gets demonetized.

Youtube and Google are different.

Youtube - don't tolerate scams and implied strict protocol.

While - Google advertise scams/fraud so it's always up to the users not fall for any types of scam.

[DdmrDdmr]

If we take any one of the domains from the list in the OP, we can see that most of them have offspring name-alikes (some legit, some not).Take for example the second entry, dnstwister comes up with 15 similar names that resolve to an IP, and a bunch (514) of similar names that are available for anyone to purchase and do whatever they have in mind:

https://dnstwister.report/search?ed=636f726f6e6176697275732d6d61702e636f6d

It’s kind of like the never ending story …

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I first saw the dnstwister site on @DroomieChikito’s thread: Tool For Catch Phishing.

[sujonali1819]

OP,  try to add your thread here.

Thank you for your suggestion. Yes, I was also thinking to add this thread there. And I will do now.

https://dnstwister.report/search?ed=636f726f6e6176697275732d6d61702e636f6d

Thank you DdmrDdmr for sharing the link and remind me about his. Previously I have seen this site was posted by someone in this forum ( maybe in Beginners & Help) But I have forgotten and can not find it.  Just got it by you.

[Harlot]

I think that we should all agree that knowing the list of COVID-19 related scams is not the most effective way of avoiding in falling one of them. Knowing the list and simply not knowing how the scam/fraud works is still being unprotected against these types of illicit activities. Currently COVID-19 related scams are ranging from phishing links and now to even robocalls so you should essentially know how these types of scams work and know how to prevent them. You should also be aware that any type of website/text message/call/email asking for money, information, username and password should already make you aware that these are most likely a scam waiting to happen.

[Stedsm]

It's a matter of shame that when the whole world is struggling hard to get out of this pandemic, some people are interested in stealing our money and to my knowledge, many of these guys get away with it just because we are emotionally down and don't have any hopes left. I'd like to thank you Sujonali to bring this thing at front and let everyone know about the wrongdoings of these dignity-less jerks.

[akirasendo17]

some domains are legit but mostly are scam specially what i read in this forum that group has made a coin, or token, then disappear, but some are legit and made to give information for covid-19 and some are made to gather information, also funds for donations, i think it is normal to check the site carefully before you give up information, as everyone say , make sure you are in the right site, and if that site ask you for critical information think twice, and never ever give anything, always ask other people for feedbacks.

[LTU_btc]

Youtube and Google are different.

Youtube - don't tolerate scams and implied strict protocol.

While - Google advertise scams/fraud so it's always up to the users not fall for any types of scam.

Google and Youtube is same company, they aren't different. It's nothing strange that these videos are demonetized. Youtube is getting more and more strict with monetization policy. Very often authors of legit videos face this issue. But they don't remove these fake misleading videos. Same like they don't remove scams from search results without report.