As the Coronavirus has adversely affected health, political, economic, and social domains of the world, there is another threat that has not been so popular in the news: the risk of cyberattacks. With the increase of this pandemic, internet dependency has also increased to a great extent. People tend to make more mistakes online than they would not have made otherwise. Learn how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected cybersecurity
A Zero-day attack exploits a computer-software vulnerability that is unknown to the developer but is known to the attacker. The attacker does not give the time to the developer to apply patches on the system/servers as the developer is unaware of it. It is a type of cyber attack that occurs on the same day of getting a knowledge of vulnerability that can be exploited or on which bad actors can sit on, waiting for the opportune moment to strike.
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