Increasing Cyber Attacks due to Work From Home
FOREWARD
As the period of pandemic has increased the Lockdown period, the Cyber Attacks have also increased many-fold majorly in Tier-I and Tier-II companies. These attacks aimed to compromise computers and mobile devices to gain access to users’ confidential data, banking details and crypto-currency accounts.
The key threats seen during this period ranged from phishing attacks to rogue apps disguised as COVID- 19 information apps that targeted users’ sensitive data.
As the period of pandemic has increased the Lockdown period, the Cyber Attacks have also increased many-fold majorly in Tier-I and Tier-II companies. These attacks aimed to compromise computers and mobile devices to gain access to users’ confidential data, banking details and crypto-currency accounts.
The key threats seen during this period ranged from phishing attacks to rogue apps disguised as COVID- 19 information apps that targeted users’ sensitive data.