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Post by account_disabled on Nov 30, 2023 11:05:21 GMT
of the pandemic on the network. There are almost 7,000 Covid-19 themed .it domains registered in a year. Risk of cyber attacks that exploit alarmism and fear linked to the spread of the virus. THE2020, the year of the Coronavirus, saw the birth of a new phenomenon on the Italian web: the registration of Coronavirus-themed domain names. It all starts on January 28, 2020, almost a month before "Patient 1" in Codogno, with the registration of the vaccinecoronavirus.it in decidedly. non-suspicious" times. This is only the first of the 6,615 coronavirus-themed .it domains Special Data registered throughout 2020 and detected by the COVID-19 Domain Observatory of the .it Registry , the registry of Italian-branded domains, operating within the Institute of Informatics and Telematics (IIT) of the CNR. With the first case of Covid-19 in Italy, registrations continued to grow, reaching 66,313 and 59,474 new .it domains in the months of April and May 2020 : +44% and +28% respectively. compared to the same months of 2019. The purpose of the analysis The aim of the analysis conducted by the Observatory is to verify the impact of the pandemic from the web point of view , monitoring the trend of the pandemic phenomenon and relating it to the Internet to interpret the needs, reactions and trends of web users with respect to an exceptional event such as a global health emergency. To do this , all .it domains registered from January to December 2020 containing words related to the pandemic such as coronavirus were analyzed; covid; virus; swab (or swabs); intensive care; vaccine (or vaccines); respirators (or respirator);
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