Cyber Threats related to social media platforms
Online Trolling: Trolling is posting inflammatory, abusive, controversial, offensive, irrelevant messages against a user to upset / provoke/ lash out or display emotional responses.
Morphing: Morphing is altering or changing the pictures of the person using morphing tools available online.
It is usually seen that online criminals, use the pictures posted by young girls and women and change them for misuse. The altered pictures are then used by perpetrators for blackmailing, creating fake online profile, sexting, sex chats, pornographic content, nude pictures etc.,
Cyber Bullying: Cyber bullying is intimidating online behavior, wherein a person can be targeted on an online public platform with threatening, humiliating, embarrassing and harassing posts or acts.
Online Grooming: Grooming is the process of befriending and establishing an emotional connect in slow, methodical and intentional process of manipulating a person to a point where they can be sexually victimized by the online predator.