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However, social applications have become highly popular and become an inseparable part of people's daily work and life, but most people still have little understanding of how to effectively protect personal privacy and sensitive data when applying, which will not only endanger personal privacy, but also bring losses to businesses and society.
01 Identity theft.
Identity theft is a common social threat that can be encountered by anyone who shares personal information in their circle of friends. When an attacker uses public information and creates fake profiles to impersonate victims, it means that identity theft has occurred. The dangers of identity theft become even more evident if an attacker gains access to a victim's bank account and tricks someone into sending money to them. Identity theft also involves illegally taking control of and accessing the victim's social ** account and posting harmful content on the web, which will put other users at risk of being attacked by fraud as well.
02 Cyberbullying
According to the survey data, about 41% of respondents said that they had been cyberbullied in social networks, including being maliciously harassed online, illegally located and stalked, and sharing harmful information content. In many countries, cyberbullying has been defined as a criminal act, and users need to professionally clean up and social** related usage records to stay away from this type of online harassment and bullying. In addition, victims can also report incidents of cyberbullying to social platforms, and many have clear protection policies in place that have a zero-tolerance policy for cyberbullying.
03 Giveaway fraud.
Launching giveaways through popular social platforms will undoubtedly allow businesses to reach a wider audience and achieve better promotion results. According to easypromos, nearly 93% of businesses surveyed will offer giveaways on their social networks to get more traffic and clicks. While these giveaways may seem tempting, they can also contain a lot of harmful pitfalls, as cyber fraudsters also run fake campaigns to offer harmful giveaways to followers, and then trick them into entering and submitting personal information, which they can use to launch further attacks.
04 Likejacking
Like hijacking is a subtle tactic in which attackers deceively get users to click the "Like" button on a topic page without their knowledge.
For example, fraudsters will hide a "Like" button behind something, and when a user sees an interesting "like" or "like" button by clicking on it, the hidden "Like" button will be triggered without knowing it. Then, the user will receive more similar messages being pushed, resulting in an overload of social dynamic updates.
05 Phishing attacks
Phishing attacks are one of the most vulnerable social security risks to victims, and with the continuous development of network technology, attackers have become more and more cunning in disguise methods, and the frequency of attacks has also increased, and various novel attack methods have emerged in an endless stream. Some attackers can steal key information within an enterprise through phishing, which poses a huge risk to the business security and information security protection of the enterprise organization. The most basic principle to prevent phishing is to be vigilant and avoid falling into the trap of phishing by carefully confirming the authenticity of any link before clicking on it and entering your account details.
06Data breach.
Since social networking has been widely used to support the digital office of enterprises, many internal materials and data of enterprises will be uploaded to external sharing platforms by employees or businessmen, which will cause data leakage. Some breaches are unintentional mistakes of internal employees for the convenience of work, and some are deliberate malicious behaviors, but these are all specific manifestations of data breach risks. Even if it is not a malicious attack, as long as confidential or sensitive documents can be accessed on the public network, it will bring different degrees of security risks to enterprises.
07 Malware.
With the vigorous development of social **, we will share various links in social **: red envelope collection, hot complaints, preferential information, interesting**, etc., which gives malware an opportunity to pass on. Research shows that malware spread through social media is just as bothering users as it is by other means. Malware will make full use of the mutual trust of social ** as the basis for communication, by disguising the current hot topics and other methods, in order to obtain more user traffic, and invade the user's computer by methods and means such as seemingly legitimate software upgrades.
08 Brand counterfeiting
The essence of a brand is trust, and when a corporate brand on social media is counterfeited by an attacker, trust can spiral out of control and cause huge financial losses. In this threat scenario, attackers often create fake corporate accounts and brand information on social networks, trying to gain the trust of users, and deceive all kinds of victim users of bank card accounts, identity accounts, various passwords and other private information. Attackers may also damage the company's brand goodwill by publishing false information that is unfavorable to the company through fake social media accounts.