Today is news again Instagram although, instead of including a new functionality or feature to its platform, it does so due, as announced by a team of researchers from Symantec, for having suffered a great theft of user accounts This could lead to hackers not only taking control of the accounts, but also taking advantage of it to get all the profile data and photos or drive malicious traffic to the computers of the visitors and their followers.
As a detail, tell you that on this occasion far from the hackers have decided to put up for sale all the credentials of these accounts but have directly opted to gain control of them by carrying out a series of actions to achieve get rich at the expense of the owners of a specific account that, unfortunately, nothing can be done to get it back.
Changes in a user's Instagram profiles can be a symptom of a hack of their account.
As it has transpired, apparently when one of these hackers steals an Instagram account, they usually carry out a series of profile changes user. Among these changes, for example, to highlight that a new photograph is added to the profile image, it is usual for them to use that of a girl with light clothing. Spicy photos are added, the account name and password are changed and, finally, a description is added where an external link is included that goes to a malicious site.
Once we access this link, it is here where the attacker gets the benefits he seeks, you will need to complete a survey where we are promised that if completed it will give access to a package of pornographic images from the account owner. Instead, by completing the survey, the visitor is directed to an adult app, again prompting you to sign up.
As a final detail, tell you that apparently, on this occasion, the robot of all these accounts is not due to a security failure of Instagram, but to the simplicity of the passwords used by users or that is directly the same as that used in other previously hacked services and platforms.
Further information: techworm