Covid-19 Pandemic: A New Era Of Cyber Security Threat And Holistic Approach To Overcome

Abstract

In this paper, we present cyber security threat created worldwide has been discussed during the current COVID-19 situation. To stop the spread of Coronavirus, almost all the countries of the world declared lockdown. People are now doing their office, schooling, and business remotely. For that reason, the use of computers and the internet has increased a lot and made cyber criminals more active. Recently the number of cyber-attacks has increased a lot, and everyone has become a target the cyber criminals. Lack of personal safety precautions in using the internet is causing significant damage to everyone. COVID-19 has made it easy for cyber criminals to have easy access to everyone’s data. Many banking sectors and government and non-government organizations have faced several cyberattacks during this time. This paper focuses on some safety precautions to safeguard the personal and organizational data from cyber criminals.