ABSTRACT
Chapter two establishes the correlation between COVID-19 and Cybersecurity, particularly how cybercriminals took advantage of the global response, social distancing, fear, and desperation to launch massive cyberattacks against vulnerable systems. By relying on the most dominant global narrative associating the novel coronavirus zoonotic disease to China in December 2019, chapter two gives a background of the origin of the virus, highlighting its transmission modes, territorial spread statistics, and global response. There is an emphasis that hackers capitalized on the global response to disrupt the cyberspace using sophisticated combinations of conventional social engineering, phishing email, ransomware, computer virus, and other malware threats.
