A change of criminal paradigm

During the times of COVID-19, the change of paradigm in criminal actions and public security is on work. Criminal operatives, including terrorists and guerrillas, focused their tragets more into hybrid adaptations to gain money and territory.

Criminal activities changed the modus operandi to virtual crimes, in general, stealing of data, hackerism that promoted by groups that send links to steal passwords and see activities, like access to social media, emails and bank accounts.

Government in general are giving financial assistance to people in the times of isolation, these assistances are being targeted by criminal groups which oprate front cyber territory, with well chosen targets with the data information stealing from banks and governments websites, in OSINT operations.

Terrorist groups are using the same modus operandi, but a bit more agressive. Terrorism is using psyops also, terror propaganda, focusing in fear of death, Islamic Terrorism is focusing in punishment of god, some other groups are focusing in ethnic cleansing, christian groups in divine punishment for non-christians, etc. Coronavirus is promoting new racist and xenophobic attacks against Chinese people, as the constant speeches of Donald Trump attacking and promoting the speech as 'Chinese virus', the constant alt-right and white nationalist groups are attacking Asian people, not only with virtual attacks and offenses, but with physical injuries, graffity and pillage.

Terror propaganda is focusing on put people under a constant state of fear. Plus, groups like ISIS or Al-Qaeda have operational and specialized capability to operate virtually, under hackerism and virtual stealing of data, implementation of new criminal network for traffick of people, drug traffick and data stealing, like small criminal groups, for money stealing. Specially using cryptocurrency to detour to their own accounts.

Al-Qaeda used Smallpox after the 9-11 to the attack of Anthrax in journals and some policy houses. Other groups joined them at this operative promotion of biological terrorism, and this is not an uncommon practice of usage. 

Another point of ISIS is the use of Lone Wolves. The operational cells that are being recruited to act with single targets, as police, without the city centers full of people, is easy to chose the target and attack without killing many innocent people, reducing the point of terror and claiming as a murdering attack, not exactly terrorist, with political ends. The change of modus operandi is not to cause high destruction in infrastructure, but to finish direct targets and claim the attacks.

Islamist terrorists are focusing on virus as an ally for the Jihadists, and they want to use it as a propaganda to finish the infidels. 

Some groups promote biological terrorism, since the 90's these paramilitary actions search for dirty bombs, bio weapons to promote less and cheap attacks and reach more people around.

Communist terrorist parties are using this to take control of the new right (not confuse with alt-right), that promotes fake news, with the implementation of a collapse of healthy system and high number o deaths, that will promote a political insecurity.