The Top Cybersecurity Threats Around Valentine's Day

 Since it’s a time of celebration, people focus more on surprising their loved ones with attractive gifts, chocolates, cards, and with other exciting surprises. Usually, people lose their attention to the potential cybercrimes that can cause safety threats to them. This is the best time when hackers try to adopt various means to trap you.

In this article, we discuss various possibilities through which cybercriminals can hack your device.
1) E-cards from family, friends, or from the social group
Thinking about e-cards, the first thing that comes to our mind is a thoughtful, friendly surprise from your close and loved ones. But the fact differs in today’s time. Today cyber criminals use it as a most common form of phishing attack. They try to pose as your friend, family person, or your office colleague to ensure that you click on the malicious file. Once you get into their trap, they steal all your sensitive information. This is one of the most popularly used traps by cyber hackers to fool users and extract information from them.
2) Attractive shopping tools
By showing attractive deals they try to convince you and they aim to win your confidence. They show the best offers on the product or service you are looking for. Through emails or messages, they share a link on which you can get all the attractive offers. Once you click on the link you accidentally shared all the information with them.
This is crucially important to verify the link and confirm the sender’s authenticity before taking any action. The best way to find and spot such scams are
· It seems to be too good to be true.
· Check for grammatical mistakes.
· May find spelling mistakes
· Be careful about the logo and the brand.
· Always check the source of the email.
3) Downloads
Valentine’s is a season of love, care, and passion. People download love songs and share those songs with their loved ones. But being a user you need to take extra precautions while downloading songs from the shared links. Think twice and cross-check every time to ensure your safety.
The thumb rule that everyone should follow is to ignore those download links that you were not expecting on your device.
4) Update your antivirus software
Install antivirus software to avoid all the problems related to cyber security. In this way, you can avoid all unwanted junk files and keep your system secure.
5) Avoid dating app installation
Do not install dating apps from any unknown source. Always rely on the Google play store or iOS app store to download any app. The apps downloaded from these sites are secure and reliable. Sites apart from these places are dangerous.
Conclusion
If you too want to celebrate this valentine’s day with safety and security, then you must install K7 antivirus software. It protects your device from all malicious files and keeps your device safe from all cyber-attacks. It detects malicious files and removes them from the system. To know more about it and to install safety and security, contact us now.

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