Be careful if you are posting a photo of your smiling husband with the hashtag Couple Challenge on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. This is not just a hashtag, but a cyber security expert’s analysis of how a spammer weaves a web to collect personal information.
IT expert Surendraman Joshi claimed that even if it is fun for some time in the name of various challenges, it will have an impact in the long run. Joshi said that the government of some countries has already warned the citizens not to use this app. He informed that all the data can be taken from the photo in the user’s mobile through this app.
There have been a number of trends on social media over the last few days in the name of the Daily Challenge; In which, as a couple challenge, users are posting photos taken with their partners on social media. Users are disclosing their personal information in the name of Couple Challenge. Based on this, the risk of spammers targeting has increased, said Anil Raghuwanshi, director of Child Safe Net.
“Users of such challenges keep all the information on their devices. It contains important data such as phone identification data, cookies, log files, location, ”says Raghuvanshi. It can also lead to theft of your interests, daily behavior, email address, credit card and password. He said wireless labs should stop using apps to prevent you from collecting new data.
This ‘trend’ is not only in Nepal but also in neighboring countries like India and Bangladesh. So far, about 4 million users have shared a photo with their husbands on Facebook as a couple challenge.
According to the Indian News Agency, Pune Police in India has requested the user to avoid this challenge through its Twitter handle. Think twice before posting a photo with your partner. If left unmanaged, they can be left astray and lose the right path. Using this type of challenge, spammers target the user’s private image; Who is being victimized by Revenge Porn and Deep Fake technology around the world.
According to Raghuvanshi, especially women are insecure. It uses artificial intelligence to connect a person’s image to another person’s body so that it looks real. From ordinary people to big celebrities have been the victims of this kind of deep throw.