The Covid-19 pandemic has not only led to a comprehensive test of the capacity of the healthcare sector, the economic downturn in the world, but has also led to an increase in cybercrime. Although not all areas and not all citizens and businesses face cybercrime to the same extent, there are good reasons to be more vigilant for everyone. Fraudsters exploit people’s fear, insecurity and instability. At the same time, an increase in aggression is observed in these difficult conditions.
The Covid-19 pandemic has created new opportunities and motivations for cybercriminals, which in turn has led to a significant increase in cybercriminals’ activities, both through the use of already known vulnerabilities and fraud techniques and the development of new, sophisticated harm methods, “Accenture“Cyber Threat Intelligence and Incident Prevention Team in its latest report”2020 Cyber Threatscape Report“.
Similar conclusions can be drawn from a report by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) which states that the number of reports of cyber-attacks received has risen to 4,000 complaints a day, 400% more than before the pandemic. In turn European Union The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) said in a report published on 20 October this year that in the first month of the Covid-19 pandemic, phishing (phishing) activities have increased by 667%. “These figures clearly point to a growing trend of cybercrime on a global scale, and we have no reason to think that Latvia’s cyberspace would be an exception in this regard,” said Alice Silde and Sarmis Šenbergs, Accenture’s security specialists.
In turn “SEB Bank “IT security expert Oskars Blumbergs points out that fraudulent activity has always been wavy, so the direct link to the pandemic is difficult to assess.
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