COVID-19 pandemic and the cyberthreat landscape: Research challenges and opportunities

Although cyber technologies benefit our society, there are also some related cybersecurity risks. For example, cybercriminals may exploit vulnerabilities in people, processes, and technologies during trying times, such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, to identify opportunities that target vulnerabl...

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Autores principales: Saleous, Heba, Ismail, Muhusina, AlDaajeh, Saleh H., Madathil, Nisha, Alrabaee, Saed, Choo, Kim-Kwang Raymond, Al-Qirim, Nabeel
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9222023/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35765301
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcan.2022.06.005
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Alrabaee, Saed
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description Although cyber technologies benefit our society, there are also some related cybersecurity risks. For example, cybercriminals may exploit vulnerabilities in people, processes, and technologies during trying times, such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, to identify opportunities that target vulnerable individuals, organizations (e.g., medical facilities), and systems. In this paper, we examine the various cyberthreats associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. We also determine the attack vectors and surfaces of cyberthreats. Finally, we will discuss and analyze the insights and suggestions generated by different cyberattacks against individuals, organizations, and systems.
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spelling pubmed-92220232022-06-24 COVID-19 pandemic and the cyberthreat landscape: Research challenges and opportunities Saleous, Heba Ismail, Muhusina AlDaajeh, Saleh H. Madathil, Nisha Alrabaee, Saed Choo, Kim-Kwang Raymond Al-Qirim, Nabeel Digit Commun Netw Article Although cyber technologies benefit our society, there are also some related cybersecurity risks. For example, cybercriminals may exploit vulnerabilities in people, processes, and technologies during trying times, such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, to identify opportunities that target vulnerable individuals, organizations (e.g., medical facilities), and systems. In this paper, we examine the various cyberthreats associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. We also determine the attack vectors and surfaces of cyberthreats. Finally, we will discuss and analyze the insights and suggestions generated by different cyberattacks against individuals, organizations, and systems. Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. 2023-02 2022-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9222023/ /pubmed/35765301 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcan.2022.06.005 Text en © 2022 Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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