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Rise of post COVID-19 cyber crimes

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If covid19 has thought us something, that is precaution is better than cure! Since the coronavirus outbreak most of the organizations in the world has opened work from home options for their employees as measures of business continuity . Some of these decisions were taken due to the extended lockdowns imposed by certain countries and some as a part of business strategy. This has created more surface for the cyber criminals to execute their attacks as previously employees in an organization accessed the networks through more secure and narrowed methods and now the access to networks are mostly from home networks which may not be secured. Cyber attacks happen in many forms and some of us may not even know if these had already taken place unless it involves financial or other fraudulent activities which has actual impact to us as individuals. These crimes take place now in the form of, Malware , Spyware , Ransomware , Trojans , Viruses , Worms , Rootkit...