Human everyday life has become almost inseparable from the Internet and technology, which has facilitated numerous aspects of life but at the same time created risks for the commission of criminal offenses in the field of cybercrime. In 2020, humanity found itself in a new situation with the first global lockdowns whose goal was to protect human health from the COVID-19 disease which is why the role of technology and the Internet became even more pronounced. The objectives of the paper were: 1) to describe cybercrime (to define the term, development and phenomenology of cybercrime, to explain the difference in relation to traditional crime, to define the international and national criminal law framework) and 2) to investigate the emerging forms of cybercrime (and their changes) in the period of the coronavirus pandemic, taking into account situational factors (such as the transition to remote work and online classes) and opportunities for prevention. Cybercriminals have incorporated COVID-19 into their attacks and scams by exploiting people's curiosity and fear through phishing messages, spam, mobile apps, the spread of disinformation and fake news and coronavirus-related malware and domains. The emerging forms of cybercrime in the era of the pandemic have become more sophisticated, which especially refers to phishing methods, compromising business e-mails and ransomware attacks. Cybercrime in its core has mostly remained the same but the specifics of the criminal approach have changed with social engineering methods in order to be more aligned with the social context, which ensures a higher success rate of attacks. According to foreign and national data, the number of criminal offenses in the field of cybercrime shows an upward trend in the period from 2017 to 2021.