what "nothing new" means --- Of course COVID-19 created a huge opportunity for cybercrimes to grow and created a lot of vulnerabilities, so the crime grew. However, it hasn't change the modus operandi, hasn't created "new" crimes (it facilitated the way of using social engineering). It did increase the reach and magnitude, the scale. There is quite an argument about the need to be more careful on what is "new" because new dimension, new modus operandi can serve as an argument for more mechanisms of control, more invasive procedural frameworks, more power for law enforcement. Especially academics and civil society organisations caution about it as powers that are granted under the narrative of emergency and "new" COVID-related cybercrime can be abused.

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