Level Of Cyber Crimes During Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Cybercrime can have a great impact on present generation during this pandemic era. The use of cyber world has increased in worldwide and everything goes in online. When cyber defences lowered due to the shift of focus on health crisis and over dependency on technology during ‘Covid-19’ pays way for enemies against world power. Cybercrime now become a million-dollar business. As there are freely available and downloadable tools on the internet even script kiddies can download and run against any vulnerable target without understanding what the tools does. There have been reports of scams impersonating public authorities such as the World Health Organization, supermarkets and airlines targeting support platforms and offering Covid-19 cures and many other ways victims are targeted. Especially they target the public, who are now socializing and spending more time online in general, as well as the increased number of people who are working from home. Thus, technological challenges impact the security, victims’ time and finances, and also packs an emotional punch, anger, stress, vulnerability, powerlessness and violation.