Nightmare scenario: You log onto your Meta universe of applications (WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook) that seem essential to your daily existential shenanigans, and find yourself or your business intercepted by mushrooming fake profiles and the very significant threat of identity theft. What next? Panic stricken, you alert your family, friends, and community members, and wait anxiously for order to restore in your social space—trying to rebuild the trust factor—now that you have been forced to relinquish control of your online identity. Or worse, you find yourself being harassed by a follow/friend request you never signed up for.
According to the India Cyber Threat Report published in 2023 by the Data Security Council of India, an alarming 400 million threat detections across
