Academic Paper Summary

This articule discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cybersecurity, focusing on smart homes and socal engineering attacks. It highlights a 35% increase in attacks targeting home equipment vulnerabilities and the exploitation of people's COVID-19 concerns through phsing techniques. The article also mentions the rise in spam attacks using COVID-19 themes and the targeting of eleconferencing platforms. It ephasizes the need to adapt cybersecurity strategies to the pandemic context and take appropriate action to reduce the impact of attacks.

R. O. Andrade, I. Ortiz-Garcés and M. Cazares, "Cybersecurity Attacks on Smart Home During Covid-19 Pandemic," 2020 Fourth World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability (WorldS4), London, UK, 2020, pp. 398-404, doi: 10.1109/WorldS450073.2020.9210363. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9210363&isnumber=9210258