The Impact of Cyber Attacks on E-Governance During the COVID-19 Pandemic

1. Introduction

The covid-19 is a new virus that is related to the same family of viruses. This is a national emergency and collectively steps are made by the world’s forums and organizations to face this disease till getting an accurate vaccine of this virus and smoothly running life. In this situation, the WHO recommended creating social distance among the people. Billions of people around the world are working from home and operating businesses from home, such as financial transactions, buy and selling, shopping, etc. Presently, the world remains in shock of covid-19 attacks and broadly impacts on business activities and rising threats to many aspects, such as economy, politics, health, and security. World Health Organization WHO has apprised that during the covid-19 pandemic that may happen all over the world in the economic aspect and it can cause huge losses due to the situation this pandemic also changed the way of organization and Government’s departments’ activities. They are operating online activities and instruction from home. E-governance is being speedily implemented all over the world for giving seamless facilities to the citizens. While the threats and attacks are also increasing to the organization and digital data. Indonesia has predicted future threats and risks, it needs huge investment to deal with this virus, especially in health (McKibbin & Fernando, 2020). It is very important to estimate the current gap, strengthen health structure, funding, and management, and increase the research measurements and evidence-based strategy making (Rodela et al., 2020). Government and Private Organizations are essential to securing information and data. The detailed report of GESTR 2019 apprised that 42% of endpoints are insecure (Ahmad, 2020). Cyber-crime and cyberattacks have been analyzed during the covid-19 pandemic picture-1 and 2 show detail (Lallie et al., 2021). The experts of cybersecurity have appraised that $450 billion annually is the total universal cost of malicious hacking activities. CTI experts have suggested that investigation and examination are necessary for the international online hacker community. The aim of this research is to identify developing threats in terms of admiration and tool functionality (Samtani et al., 2020). The health industries faced great losses due to the growing number of cyber-attacks recently in the medical field. Medical information plays a significant part in human health, a primary object of this research to conduct a comprehensive survey in connection with possible cyber-attacks and finding proper solutions to these types of threats and attacks.(Razaque et al., 2019) The world has estimated the cost of cybersecurity attacks and threats is US $6 trillion a year in 2021, while the number of threats and attacks has bigger increased after COVID-19. The large literature is available in the prospect of health care industries on threats technological vulnerabilities. The author focused on the reason for increasing the number of cybersecurity threats and attacks during the COVID-19 pandemic (Williams et al., 2020). The main object of this chapter is to focus on the last ten years’ research articles of cybersecurity threats and attacks that were founded on the e-government applications and emerging technologies for the measurement of cybersecurity. The result of this research will be analyzed on the machine learning techniques.

This research's main objective is to find cyber-attacks and steal information in the Covid-19 Pandemic and assess the user’s loss on machine learning techniques.

Figure 1.

Detail of cyberattacks in the different region during the covid-19 pandemic (Williams et al., 2020)

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Cyber-attacks different region during the covid-19 pandemic (Hiscox, 2019)