COVID-19 pandemic fraud. Cyber threats during quarantine

The global COVID-19 pandemic is not only a serious threat to us and our loved ones, but also a serious challenge to our cybersecurity. In parallel with the coronavirus, payment fraud exploiting the pandemic is spreading around the world. Fear and mental instability, which often turns into panic, opened a new window of opportunity for fraudsters. The virus and the horrifying news have created the perfect basis for all sorts of fraudulent attacks.

Although these fraudulent schemes are not new (they are all old and well-known and only adapted to the latest crown news), but the growing anxiety and fears, increased demand for personal protective equipment and pharmaceuticals, law enforcement in the process of maintaining public order, increasing the time spent by citizens on the Internet – all these factors, acting together, undermine the overall anti-fraud immunity and critical thinking of citizens.

Based on the danger looming over Ukraine and continuing the tradition of combating cyber fraud, the EMA Association has prepared an interactive information graph covering the most common schemes of “coronation fraud”.