Question

In Social Media Is The Biggest Source Of Cyber Crime ?​

Answer 1

Social media platforms are the success story of the century, certainly as far as numbers of users go. To give you an idea of the popularity of this type of software here are some of those numbers:

Facebook – 2.45 billion monthly active users[1]

Twitter – 300 million monthly active users[2]

Instagram – 1 billion monthly active users[3]

Popularity like this means that social media is like honey to a wasp where cybercrime is concerned. Fraudsters see social media users as a captive and trusting audience, that can be manipulated into performing acts they would normally be more vigilant about. Social media has effectively built a platform, not just for sharing ideas and cat pictures, but as a playground for cybercrime.

Here, we look at some of the ways that your social presence is being used to commit cybercrime.