A taxonomy proposal of cyber threats involving children and adolescents

This exploratory research with a qualitative approach retrieves recent prominent threats involving children and adolescents on the internet during Covid-19 pandemic by searching occurrences on the digital journalistic production for a systematic review on news articles and blogs indexed by online databases. We found 45 cyber threats and classified them based on scientific literature. After, we proposed a taxonomy to help to identify, report and treat the occurrences and improve cybersecurity and cyber safety. This taxonomy aims to be a contribution to education in the post-pandemic world.