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Characterizing the Landscape of COVID-19 Themed Cyberattacks and Defenses

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arxiv 2102.13223 v1 pith:B5N3COQZ submitted 2021-02-25 cs.CR

Mir Mehedi Ahsan Pritom , Kristin M. Schweitzer , Raymond M. Bateman , Min Xu , Shouhuai Xu This is my paper · ORCID
classification cs.CR
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COVID-19 (Coronavirus) hit the global society and economy with a big surprise. In particular, work-from-home has become a new norm for employees. Despite the fact that COVID-19 can equally attack innocent people and cybercriminals, it is ironic to see surges in cyberattacks leveraging COVID-19 as a theme, dubbed COVID-19 themed cyberattacks or COVID-19 attacks for short, which represent a new phenomenon that has yet to be systematically understood. In this paper, we make the first step towards fully characterizing the landscape of these attacks, including their sophistication via the Cyber Kill Chain model. We also explore the solution space of defenses against these attacks.

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