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Cyber-Physical Attacks: Some Invisible Threat

  In the era of digitalization, criminal minds often come up with new and advanced ways to create nuisance among the people. During the pandemic physical attacks are replaced by cyber-physical attacks at an alarming level. Physical attacks like crime, warfare, and terrorism are gradually taking place in cyberspace which causes more damage as it is impossible to predict the intensity of attack and attack can cause damage without any political, social, and moral outrage.  Cyber-Physical Attacks are the security breach in cyberspace which has its impact on the physical environment. The attacker can seize the communication system between the systems. In cyber-physical attacks, the attackers gain complete access to a computer system and can operate the machinery and industrial equipment and can control the operations of the equipment to damage the property, physical assets, injuries, and even death. For example, they can turn off the lights in the buildings, force the drone to land...