New Delhi, April 30 -- As people around the world are staying at home due to COVID-19, many are turning to new apps and communications tools to work, learn, access information, and stay connected with loved ones.

Google's Director for Trust & Safety, Saikat Mitra has shared details on how digital platforms used in the current lockdown period are although helpful in our daily lives can also introduce new online security risks.

Mitra says that Google's Threat Analysis Group continually monitors for sophisticated hacking activity, and its security systems have detected a range of new scams such as phishing emails posing as messages from charities and NGOs battling COVID-19, directions from "administrators" to employees working from home, a...