A Comprehensive Review on Challenges and Prevention of Cybercrimes in Social Media

Abstract

Social media is no doubt a great source of communication in today’s modern world but it has various advantages and disadvantages. Because of its widespread usage cyber-attacks on social media becoming the major risk for data security. Attackers use new technologies such as AI and other tools for performing attacks on social media leading to more cybercrimes on social media. Therefore, the understanding of cybercrimes and their counter techniques are very important to address this challenge. The goal of this paper is to analyze the causes of cybercrimes, and their preventive techniques, and propose new countermeasures. The paper also discusses the major reasons and challenges of these cybercrimes on social media including the lack of information, malicious users, and weak privacy measures. This paper also explores major cybercrime types including targeted, modern, and usual attacks, and also evaluates how the prevention techniques are suitable and effective in combating cyber-attacks, and proposes new preventive measures such as authentication, and privacy settings considered important against attacks. For effective prevention of attacks, there is need to develop more effective strategies to minimize the increasing number of cybercrimes on social media,a nd awareness of users are necessary factors.