The world is experiencing a cybercrime pandemic, which is a direct consequence of COVID-19. Ransomware attacks have increased by nearly 500% since the start of the cyber pandemic. Cyberattacks across the world have increased dramatically since then. The FBIs 2020 Internet Crime Report listed 791,790 cybercrime complaints in 2020 – a 69% increase over 2019. In the SolarWinds supply chain attack, hackers had access to the data of at least nine U.S. federal agencies for more than nine months. Cybercrime as a Service on the dark web has happened over the last few years.”]
Source: https://www.inforisktoday.com/blogs/cybercrime-other-pandemic-p-3120