Description
The world’s population is facing the adverse impact of coronavirus. It not only deteroited physical health but also left a deep impact on mental and psychological health . The worldwide spread forced the government to impose nationwide lockdown at the global level. The sudden lockdown witnessed an exodus of migrant laborers, crippling health system, digital education and weakening of the economic structure. It also brought complete lockdown which forced millions of office workers to work from home. The meetings are now held using tele-working arrangements and accessing non-public data online. The lockdown increases the scope for criminals to exploit vulnerabilities and commit financial crime. People are in today’s world, more connected by communications and information technologies than ever before. It has brought closeness and compactness in people’s lives. Telecommunication systems and computers play a vital role impacting by transmitting voice and data digitally across transnational borders. It implies free communications of thoughts, ideas, and which instilled a great sense of freedom and openness to the people to understand their political processes. The availability of resources and information and information systems technologies has made our lives more efficient. But with the new advancements, it too produces a negative impact which the people are facing in today’s lives. With the advent of 21st century, the nature of threats have also changed where the crucial security threats that a state faced are no longer conventional forces or the armies of other states. The whole game of offence and defence attacks has shifted its gambit on cyber-crimes. As during the lockdown we mostly relied upon digital technology which brought both positive and negative recursions. In the new global world we are dealing with more heinous and invisible crime which is cyber crime. In regard with the above discussion this paper will try to highlight the surge of cyber-crime with the sudden breakout of pandemic resulting in complete lockdown all over the world/ It will try to investigates what are the threats of the cyber crime and how the world at the global level initiated efforts to combat this form of crime to let mankind survive in the future world.
