John

On hearing the term “social media threats,” most of the people can only think as far as to fake accounts, trolls, fake followers that are bought online, or maybe the fake news and accusations that go viral in seconds across social media platforms. However, in this process, what is most often forgotten is social media security. People fail to realize how it can be used to cause damage to a company and its customers through online threats like fake business accounts, brand impersonation, phishing attacks and scams, ID theft scams, and so on. This leads us to another fact that most of these threats are run through social media platforms only. The most significant vulnerability of an organization is the human factor. Contrarily, there are human activities online that are disguised as regular social media activities. Now, this is precisely where usually a top-level of social engineering is in action as cybercriminals execute all kinds of online scams, frauds, thefts, and schemes with the ai...