Cybersecurity risks increasing exponentially during pandemic, experts warn

Experts warned that the global pandemic and resulting lockdown measures that drove people online more was leading to a wave of cybercrime. — Dreamstime/TNS

While the public has had their hands full trying to survive the Covid-19 pandemic, both literally and financially, another infection has been brewing online.

Fortinet Asia Pacific security strategist Jonas Walker warned that the global pandemic and resulting lockdown measures that drove people online more was leading to a wave of cybercrime.