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Oct 7, 2021
Case Study on Social Media Crime
The dawn of pandemic has pushed businesses and personal conversations to be conducted online like never before. Social media being accessed relentlessly has brought social media related crime to accelerate. Attackers, stalkers and amateur students are the mostly found to be the culprits of it. Social media crime includes online threats, stalking, cyber bullying, buying illegal things, distribution of pornography, hacking and fraud etc.The LexisNexis Risk Solutions released its biannual Cyber crime Report covering July 2020 through December 2020, which details how the evolving threat landscape created new opportunities for cyber criminals around the world, particularly as they targeted new online users.This report also concluded that young adults and adults over 75 most vulnerable to fraud attacks.