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New Waves of Cyber Attacks in the Time of COVID19

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Advances in Computing, Informatics, Networking and Cybersecurity

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For hackers and many actors in the cyber world, crises can make opportunities. With the continuous spread of Covid-19 pandemics, new waves of cyber-attacks are witnessed. Attackers are taking advantage of possibly increasing vulnerabilities due to lack of awareness of best security practices when using online resources by many new users. While the data and network security specialist do their best to protect the cyber users, and Information Technology companies strive to look for threats countermeasures, in this chapter, we are presenting, revising, and analyzing different types of cyberattacks which might exist before, but evolved at the COVID-19 era. Moreover, we are addressing the new cyberattacks that flourished during COVID-19 pandemic from different prospective including their economical and social impact. Finally, we are discussing possible countermeasures to detect and prevent these attacks.

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  1. Department of Computing and Cyber Security, Texas A&M University, San Antonio, TX, 78224, USA

    Izzat Alsmadi & Lo’ai Tawalbeh

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  1. Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Petros Nicopolitidis

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

    Sudip Misra

  3. Department of Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, Canada

    Laurence T. Yang

  4. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Bernard Zeigler

  5. Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

    Zhaolng Ning

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Alsmadi, I., Tawalbeh, L. (2022). New Waves of Cyber Attacks in the Time of COVID19. In: Nicopolitidis, P., Misra, S., Yang, L.T., Zeigler, B., Ning, Z. (eds) Advances in Computing, Informatics, Networking and Cybersecurity. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 289. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87049-2_21

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