Meta’s Instagram has announced new security measures to protect people on its platform from sextortion scams. Sextortion is a crime where scammers threated to expose intimate imagery of their victims ...

Oct. 17 (UPI) --Meta said Thursday Instagram is launching a new campaign to help teens and their parents avoid sextortion and fight the financially-driven scammers who prey on teens and children.

Learn how sextortion affects children and how parents can respond calmly, support recovery, and protect their child from ...

The Canadian Centre for Child Protection says 65 boys reported incidents to Cybertip.ca in 2015-16 — an 89 per cent increase from the previous two-year period of 2013-2014. Reports involving girls ...

Instagram will no longer allow people to take screenshots or screen recordings of ephemeral images or videos sent in direct messages. It's one of the service's latest safety guardrails meant to help ...

Teenage boys are the most frequent targets of financial “sextortion” schemes that are often conducted through Instagram and other social media platforms, according to a new report. The report was ...

Instagram is introducing a series of new safety features to protect users from sextortion scammers, the company announced on Thursday. Most notably, the company is no longer going to allow people to ...

Perpetrators are counting on boys who are lonely, numb and too ashamed to speak. Connection is the one thing they cannot ...

Instagram investigated and removed around 63,000 Instagram accounts in Nigeria that were trying to financially sextort users, according to a blog post from Meta. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

Instagram is far from a gleaming example of protecting young people online, having failed to prevent its algorithm from promoting child sexual abuse material. But new features bring some (at least a ...

Men in their twenties are at particular risk of falling victim to sextortion scams, new analysis from Nationwide Building ...