Cyber Security Threats During Covid-19 Pandemic

In 2020, Covid-19 was declared as a pandemic, affecting almost ever part of societies, because of its impacts economy worldwide faced a big loss which included most of the economic sectors. During that time, technology played a very crucial role worldwide in keeping people connected. Educational institutions adopted online learning, employees started working from home, in addition to that, there has been a high demand for different types of businesses like online healthcare, delivery of food and grocery shopping, etc. Although technology helped in many different ways, we also observed a sudden increase in cyber-attacks. Attackers worldwide took the covid-19 situation as a big opportunity to perform various malicious activities and attacks for financial benefits and to promote their evil demands. This paper identifies major threats in cybersecurity that have taken place worldwide during the situation of covid-19. All these attacks played a big role in bringing harm to different sectors of our society. (C) 2021 INT TRANS J ENG MANAG SCI TECH.