What is phishing? How to protect Instagram account from phishing
Instagram is the most popular photo and video-sharing social website. Due to the increasing following of Instagram, A Lot of people want to Hack Instagram Account. In this blog, I will explain, How to protect the Instagram account from phishing. I will use the Phishing method to convince you.
What is Phishing
Phishing is a type of most dangerous Social Engineering Attack. It is used to steal users’ data, including Login details and Banking credentials. At this time, Instagram Account is more getting hacked. Less due to any weakness or bugs, these are more hacked by phishing. The latest Twitter Attack is its most extensive example.
Types of Phishing
- Catphishing
- SMS phishing
- Spear phishing
- Clone phishing
- Voice phishing
Follow the Steps
If you follow this step. Then you can easily Protect your Instagram Account.
Let’s start, I am using Kali Linux 2020. First of all, You have to open Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browser on your Computer. Then, Go to Google and search the SocialPhish GitHub page. Now copy the git clone URL.
At this stage, Open your Terminal. Then, Type git clone. Paste your URL, Press Enter Button, At once your cloning will be started.
In this stage, We will Enter in Socialphish folder. Then type the ls command, You will found a lot of scripts. But we are interested in socialphish.sh. Now we will set up permission on socialphish script. Following the below command.
chmod 755 socialphish.sh
Now, Following the below command.
bash socialphish.sh
There are lots of cloning pages for Phishing Attacks.
But we have interested in hacking Instagram account. For that, I choose the First Option. Then, we will select the second option.
in this stage, Ngrok server will start downloading. But we will wait till the ngrok server is started. Once the ngrok server is started then the PHP server will start. Then, the Ngrok server will generate a link. You must send this link to our target person.
As soon as, The target person will click on this link. Then, his important credential will be stolen.
Such as:- Country, Hostname, Ip-Address, Currency, etc.
In this stage, an Instagram login page will open. As soon as, The victim will fill up his credential in it. The victim’s Instagram Account details will go to the hacker. Then his Instagram account will be completely hacked.
Protect Instagram account from phishing
If you want to avoid phishing, do not click on any unknown link. First, carefully identify that link. For that, you use a website like www.virustotal.com