In order to deceive innocent people, cybercriminals use fear to generate fear in their targets. The newest tactic used to deceive unsuspecting victims is to capitalize on the public’s innate fear of law enforcement, including the police and government officials.
Phishing websites are frequently created by cybercriminals to seem a lot like real bank websites. They then circulate these fake links using SMS, social media, email, and SMS. Never click on links that you are unfamiliar with or unvarified.
Sextortion is a type of online abuse in which a cybercriminal seduces a victim into an intimate video or audio chat with the intent of forcing them to pose nude or obtaining intimate images from them. The cybercriminal may use various channels, including instant messaging apps, SMS, online dating apps, social media platforms or pornographic …
Posting morphed obscene photographs of females on social media sometimes in porn sites for revenge is a heinous crime.Sometime, perpetrators create fake account on face book to defame their victims and post morphed pictures to blackmail them.
In West Africa, particularly in Ghana and Nigeria, there is a rise in informal academies known as “hustle kingdoms,” where young people are trained how to carry out online frauds.
সাইবার ট্রোলিং প্রায়ই ভারত সহ সারা বিশ্বে সরকার সমর্থক সাইবার ট্রলাররা মূলত অনলাইনে সমাজ বিরোধী সুলভ আচরণ করে৷ সাইবার ট্রোলিং সাইবার ট্রলিং থেকে নিজেকে বাঁচানোর সহজতম উপায় হলো বেশিরভাগ মন্তব্যের প্রতিক্রিয়া না দেওয়া এবং অন্য যেসব মেসেজ যা আপত্তিকর, হুমকিভরা এবং অপমানজনক, যেমন সোশ্যাল মিডিয়া community guidelines বর্ণিত রয়েছে৷
ফিশিং ওয়েবসাইটগুলি প্রায়শই সাইবার অপরাধীদের দ্বারা তৈরি করা হয় যাতে অনেকটা বাস্তব ব্যাঙ্কের ওয়েবসাইটের মতো দেখা যায়। তারপরে তারা এসএমএস, সোশ্যাল মিডিয়া, ইমেল এবং এসএমএস ব্যবহার করে এই জাল লিঙ্কগুলিকে প্রচার করে। আপনি যে লিঙ্কগুলি অপরিচিত বা স্বল্প পরিচিত সেই লিঙ্কগুলিতে কখনই ক্লিক করবেন না।
Online abuse against Venezuelan sports journalist Mari Montes and her family went unabated for years. Experts say attempts to discredit and silence female journalists are regularly made through digital attacks.
“As breakthroughs in digital technology continue to alter human existence, we must be vigilant in our awareness of malicious use of such technologies that could jeopardise the security of future generations,” UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu said
The development of electronic wallet by mobile operating companies in Cameroon has change the dynamics of cash transfer, the payment of bills, educational fee, purchase of furniture, sponsor of programs by NGOs, but also negative impact, as cybercriminals use to perpetrate crimes, mitigating financial transaction through purchase of bitcoins. Cryptocurrency term which heard in every economic milieu, have become a tool use by some unscrupulous people engage digital marketing and cyber criminality to extort or victimize communities. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 as an open source software, which started operating in 2009 under the name Satochi Nakoamoto with the following particularities; digital money package which is privately own and exonerate individuals from bank fees, a virtual currency that uses per-to peer technology to facilitate instant payment, bitcoin is purchase through mobile money with the use of internet with cash deposit