Boosting Students and Teachers Cybersecurity Awareness During COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The COVID-19 Coronavirus originating from Wuhan, China has become a global pandemic. In order to protect their country’s residents, governments worldwide have ordered schools and companies to close and for people to quarantine at home. This has resulted in a dramatic increase in the use of digital devices and activity on the internet. Cybercriminals around the globe have seen this pandemic as an opportunity to initiate cyberattacks. This paper reviews the cyber threats that threaten users globally, as well as some of the attacks that have already occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. We then make suggestions to countermeasure these attacks and what can be done in the future to improve cybersecurity awareness and prevent them from occurring again.