“The massive use of the Internet during this lockdown and the COVID-19 health alert are changing our lives and exposing us to new dangers. Remote work, videoconferencing, online shopping, and our children’s education are fertile ground for cybercriminals. […]”

Selva Orejón, executive director of Onbranding — specialists in security, digital identity, and reputation — explains to eltaquigrafo.com that “in recent months we have seen a large volume of cyberattack cases against celebrities, both on their social media and in their emails and mobile phones (WhatsApp, Telegram), which makes us realize that we must act now“

Orejón warns us that these types of attacks are not new; at Onbranding, they have been fighting cybercrimes for over 13 years: cyberharassment, data theft, identity theft, phishing, ransomware, etc.

A swift and timely response by professionals can prevent immeasurable reputational damage. Let us not forget that there is a fundamental right, the right to honor, which deserves to be protected.

Ultimately, the goal is to establish the boundary between social media users’ freedom of expression and humiliation, harassment, insults, and falsehoods as crimes, and therefore as prosecutable and reportable acts.”

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