Tremendous increase in cyber crimes during global epidemic: United Nations report

0
cyber-crime

United Nations: The head of the United Nations Anti-Terrorism Office has reported that the first quarter of this year saw a 350 percent increase in phishing websites. Most of them targeted hospitals and health care systems and disrupted their work towards the Covid-19 global epidemic.

Vladimir Voronkov told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that the increase in these counterfeiting sites is part of the “tremendous increase in cyber crimes in recent months” that was revealed during the first Anti-Terrorism Week held at the United Nations last month. Speakers at the event gave. He said that the United Nations and global experts are still not fully understanding “the consequences and impact of the global pandemic on global peace and security and especially on organized crime and terrorism”. Voronkov said, “We know that terrorists are taking advantage of the economic difficulties and disruption caused by Covid-19 to spread fear, hatred and division, and to radicalize and appoint their new supporters.” “The increase in internet usage and cybercrime during the global pandemic further exacerbates this problem,” he said.

He said that representatives from 134 countries, 88 civil society and private sector organizations, 47 international and regional organizations, and 40 United Nations bodies attended the week-long meeting. Under-Secretary-General Voronkov said that the discussion showed a shared understanding and concern that “terrorists are raising funds by trafficking drugs, goods, natural resources, and antiquities as well as kidnapping, recovery and other heinous crimes.” He said that the United Nations member nations are “focused on dealing with the health disaster and humanitarian crises caused by Covid-19” but appealed not to forget the threat of terrorism.

Advertisement