Computer forensics and Cyber Crimes: COVID-19 perspective

Abstract

Civilization, as we probably aware, is encountering the most exceedingly awful pandemic of this era. The coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak had an enormous effect on the planet and has crushed a few nations to a stop as of now. This pandemic renders people and society incredibly defenseless in all regards. There is a proof that malicious persons are misusing those vulnerabilities to further their own potential benefit. During this emergency, we as a whole depend like never before on computers, mobile phones, and Internet for working, transmission, sharing, shopping, and getting informed and in any case alleviate the effect of social distancing. During this critical time cyber security is of considerably more significance, as nature is perfect for Cyber Criminals to strike. Cyber Criminals are exploiting the dread and vulnerability encompassing the coronavirus outbreak. COVID-19 keeps spreading over the globe and Cyber Crime graph has been ascending with it. Attackers are utilizing COVID 19 as impulse to imitate the phishing attacks, mail-spams and ransomware attacks. Cyber Crime is a developing issue, yet the legal systems to investigate and effectively prosecute criminals are unclear. Legal authorities need to collaborate fully to identify, detect, examine, investigate, and prosecute the offenders and punish those who exploit the coronavirus outbreak for their personal criminal purposes. This study talks about Cyber Crime, explanations behind leading a computer forensic investigation, different features of computer forensics in detail, potential source of advanced proof, standard working strategy for cyber evidence, and the role of computer forensics in this COVID-19 pandemic.