In cyberspace, attackers may use a variety of strategies to create panic and force victims to follow instructions, including the following common ones: - **Spreading false information** - **Creating disaster rumors**: Claiming that a serious natural disaster, such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, etc., is about to occur in a certain area, causing public panic. - **Spreading disease panic**: Fabricating false news that a deadly infectious disease is spreading on a large scale, causing people to rush to buy protective equipment and causing social disorder. - **Spreading terrorist threats**: Threatening that terrorist attacks will occur in specific places, causing people to be psychologically afraid and affecting their normal life and work. - **Exploiting privacy threats** - **Data leakage threats**: Informing victims that their personal sensitive information, such as ID numbers, bank account information, etc., has been stolen and may be made public or used for illegal purposes, forcing victims to follow the requirements to avoid information exposure. - **Expose private photos or videos**: Threatening to make private photos or videos of victims public unless the victim pays a ransom or meets specific conditions. This method will bring great psychological pressure and social reputation damage to the victim. - **Create the illusion of system failure** - **Display false system warnings**: Pop up fake system warning windows on the victim's computer screen, claiming that there are serious problems with the system, such as virus infection, hardware failure, etc., and guide the victim to follow the prompts, which may actually lead to more security risks. - **Block network services**: Use distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) and other means to paralyze websites or online services, and then tell administrators that they can only restore services by following the attacker's instructions, affecting normal business operations and causing economic losses and reputational damage to related companies or institutions.