Facebook owned Instagram said that unknown hackers have exploited a critical bug in its server and have stolen personal details, including contact, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers etc. belonging to top celebrities and are trading them on underground hacking forums. The warning came on Wednesday when Instagram sent emails to celebrities with verified accounts on the platform explaining […]
Earlier this week, Variety reported that Instagram account of actress and singer Selena Gomez, the world’s most followed person on the photo-based social network, was hacked. The hackers also posted NSFW pictures of her ex-boyfriend and pop star Justin Bieber via her account. Eventually, the account was restored. Now, the Facebook-owned service has revealed that […]
Selena Gomez’s Instagram was swiftly taken down on Monday after several nude photos of Justin Bieber were posted on her account. Gomez was hacked, Variety has confirmed, but she has since re-secured her account. Variety has reached out to her rep for comment. Gomez’s Instagram was back online minutes after it was taken down, with the nude photos deleted. The singer […]
Earlier today (August 28), the official Instagram of popular singer Selena Gomez was hacked and the hackers ended up sharing several nude photos of Justin Bieber, her ex-boyfriend. Gomez has over 125 million followers and that means the NSFW pictures were seen by millions of people around the world. The hack attack took place at 2:45 pm ET but shortly after her […]
Short Bytes: If you love clicking pictures and sharing them with your friends and family, by using some handy Instagram tricks you can make the best out of this Facebook-owned photo-sharing app. Using some hidden features, you can use Instagram as a photo editor, add/remove filters, download photos and videos in batch, drive traffic to […]
A group of Russian-speaking hackers has been attacking multiple governments for years now. Not only that, but they also experimented with different methods of conducting those attacks with the help of the social media websites. Their approach was pretty clever, and they used those sites for concealment of the espionage malware. Antivirus provider called Eset […]
The Turla espionage group is still using watering hole techniques to redirect potentially interesting victims to their C&C infrastructure.
Boost Instagram Followers Social media websites, as FB, Instagram, and Twitter, are absolutely the most went via pages around the sector. Internet-based totally social networking has picked up a crazy notoriety because it allows people to be upgraded on their circle of relatives, companions, or a person else’s existence. Boost Instagram Followers could be very […]
Lately, credential stealing campaigns and Instagram go hand in hand as we have seen so many credential stealers targeting social networking app users. These campaigns circulate on Google Play in the form of tools designed to increase the number of followers on Instagram. Recently, 13 malicious apps were identified to be uploaded on Google Play […]
ESET Security Discovered 13 malicious apps which performing to steal your instagram creditionals .These apps has been installed almost 1.5 Millions users . These 13 apps are tricking user by the way of encouraging to boost instagram followers. Under the detection name Android/Spy.Inazigram . According to ESET Report ,The apps were phishing for Instagram credentials […]
ESET researchers discovered 13 new Instagram credential stealers on Google play and looked into the motivations behind their fraudulent schemes.
Instagram undoubtedly is a very popular social networking platform, which is the main reason why it attracts the attention of cyber-criminals, hackers and scammers so frequently. According to latest findings from the mobile malware research team at Intel Security, Google Play store has become a haven for Instagram password stealers. These malicious cybercriminals are distributing […]
A botnet of IoT (Internet of Things) devices created with the Linux/Moose malware is behind many bots that are plaguing social networks such as YouTube, Periscope, Twitter, and Instagram, above all. Crooks are using this botnet of infected embedded devices to relay traffic they’ve sent from their command and control (C&C) servers to their targets, […]
Short Bytes: The ACLU of California has released some records that show Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram shared the user data with a company named Geofeedia which makes surveillance products used by government law enforcement agencies. Following the exposure, these social media networks have cut off their feeds to Geofeedia. According to a revelation made by the […]
Hackers are taking over Instagram accounts and posting pornographic content — Here’s how to properly secure your account! Social media accounts are always targeted very by malicious actors and scammers. Lately, we have seen quite a few platforms being violated by hackers including Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace. So, it comes as no surprise that hackers have now identified […]
Scammers are hacking Instagram accounts and altering profiles with sexually suggestive imagery to lure users to adult dating and porn spam. Earlier this year, we reported an influx of fake Instagram profiles luring users to adult dating sites. Over the last few months, we have observed Instagram accounts being hacked and used to promote adult […]
Phone numbers exposed in borked verification portal Security consultant Arne Swinnen says Instagram has shuttered brute force authentication holes that allowed hijacking of some 20 million accounts. The NVISO infosec man says an absent authentication control coupled with an insecure direct object reference vulnerability meant attackers could commandeer some four percent of accounts held in […]
A 10-year-old kid from Finland found a bug allowing access to Instagram servers and delete any text posted by Instagram users. If a security researcher wants to take part in Facebook’s bug bounty program there is an age requirement but the 10-year-old Finish kid Jani ( the last name not revealed) hacked Instagram and reported […]
Two teenagers were behind the whole hacking scheme. At the end of last week, Dutch police arrested two suspects on allegations of hacking multiple Instagram accounts and then using them to request illegal payments for advertising services. The two suspects, yet unnamed, are of 18 and 19, from Alblasserdam and Boskoop, two neighboring cities near Rotterdam […]
Alleged Turkish hackers have taken over the Russian Communications and Mass Media Minister Nikolai Nikiforov’s Instagram account. Events in the cyberspace are strictly correlated with facts in the real life, in many cases, disputes between countries are associated with numerous cyber events that could be analyzed by intelligence analysts. The recent crisis in Crimea between Russia and Ukraine is just […]
Wesley Wineberg, an independent security researcher, participating in Facebook’s bug bounty program, managed to crack his way through Instagram defenses and almost get complete control over the service. Soon after the researcher disclosed the vulnerability to Facebook, the company threatened to sue, instead of paying the reward he was due for his work. Mr. Wineberg started […]