COVID-19 Impact: Cyber Security in Communication Technology

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COVID-19’s Impact on Cyber Security

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced organisations and individuals to embrace new practices such as social distancing and remote working. Governments are reconsidering ways to ensure that their countries are stable by developing and enforcing new economic plans. Nevertheless, while the world is focused on the health and economic threats posed by COVID-19, cyber criminals around the world undoubtedly are capitalizing on this crisis. COVID-19 pandemic disease has created a severe outbreak in the world starting from China to almost in every country. It has major impact on almost everything including human life, world economy, automotive sector, industrial sector and others, as a result, demand and consumption rate gets lowered. Unavailability of vaccine to cure or prevent the disease from spreading is major reason due to which lockdown has been initiated for prevention and to lower the COVID-19 spread. From our Cyber Intelligence Centre, we have observed a spike in phishing attacks, Malspams and ransomware attacks as attackers are using COVID-19 as bait to impersonate brands thereby misleading employees and customers. This will likely result in more infected personal computers and phones. Not only are businesses being targeted, end-users who download COVID-19 related applications are also being tricked into downloading ransomware disguised as legitimate applications. To speak to our analyst for a discussion on the above findings, click Here, https://www.databridgemarketresearch.com/covid-19-resources/covid-19-impact-on-cybersecurity-in-the-ict-industry


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