By Alex Scroxton
Well-meaning developers are beginning to offer medical apps to monitor coronavirus symptoms and provide information on the pandemic. Opportunists and cyber criminals are not far behind themAlthough many legitimate mobile applications designed to help people track and monitor symptoms of the Covid-19 coronavirus are beginning to reach the market
By Mike Snider
Be careful as you search for ways to get information about the ongoing coronavirus pandemic: You could inadvertently install malware or spyware on your phone. Hackers thrive on chaos and see the current outbreak as a way to infiltrate people's devices and steal valuable information. A sign of the times: the U.S Health and Human Services Department, which is busy confronting the spread of the coronavirus, was hit with a cyberattack over the weekend. No vital information was accessed, officials said.
