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With so many of us stuck in our houses these days, people are looking for all sorts of ways to keep themselves occupied. Pornhub has become one of the sites that benefitted most, with some unusual happenings as a result. In recent weeks, the company's research team had been seeing some weird search queries.

The World Health Organization has declared that Covid-19 will be labelled as a pandemic virus, meaning that it has currently infected the whole world. A few days ago, Italy implemented its lockdown policy after cases went up to nearly 1,000 cases. Other than pharmacies and grocery stores, no other businesses can be in operation during this critical time. To help out the situation, Pornhub has announced that it will be giving everyone in Italy free premium access to its sites until 3 April 2020.

Based on a statement by thehackernews.com, it seems that cybercriminals are utilizing a ‘coronavirus map’ to steal sensitive information such as passwords from any unsuspecting victims. The method in which they acquire such information is by tricking the users to download a software which is embedded with a malware called AZORult, which collects information from web browsers such as cookies, user ID, passwords and more.

Covid-19 (aka Coronavirus) is a big topic of the year. Not only has the virus taken thousands of lives in China, but also spread to other countries and regions at a fast pace. The circumstance has led people to discuss it widely on the Internet, be it sharing new updates or providing ways to prevent the virus. However, there are some platforms in China that censor words that are related to the virus, and one of them is WeChat.

Based on a statement by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), there is a chance the Tokyo 2020 Olympics could be cancelled or postponed due to the recent COVID-19 outbreak. With that said, more than 15400 athletes from various nations could be affected if such an event were to be cancelled.

Samsung tweeted a video on their Twitter account, recommending owners of Samsung Smart TVs to perform scans for viruses and malware especially for those that are connected to the internet via WiFi or even LAN cable. Unfortunately, we could not provide the video source due to the fact that has removed the tweet shortly after it was posted up.