Why does Facebook account become a good prey for Vietnamese hackers?

Tram Ho

Not the first and certainly not the last time, we have seen a famous person’s Facebook account occupied by a Vietnamese hacker.

Before Ivanovic, accounts of many other famous people have been taken, such as Quang Hai, Son Tung M-TP, MisThy, Linh Ngoc Dam, Baroibeo, PewPew … Some people have lost their accounts to rebuild from scratch. Someone asked for the intervention of Facebook Singapore partner, some people accepted to pay the ransom.

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Altogether, a Facebook account has now become a valuable asset to many people. There is supply and demand, the person who needs to buy a Facebook account will have a seller. There are sellers who will have hacker hands.

And these are the reasons why Facebook accounts have suddenly become a good prey for Vietnamese hackers to take over in recent years.

Appropriating fanpage, group

Years ago, hacking a celebrity’s nick and demanding a ransom was a fairly popular way of earning money among hackers. However, this measure is difficult to implement in the long term with relatively high occupational risks. Not to mention, the more famous a person is, the easier it is to get his Facebook account back.

Thus, hackers began to turn to attack normal Facebook accounts but had the authority to administer large groups or fan pages. These can be renamed and easily resold for a high value without much risk.

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Group associated with a personal Facebook account is something easy to be appropriated in a very short time.

Further, only fan pages with green areas are allowed to run livestream ads and recommended, as in the case of Ivanovic fanpage mentioned above. This is extremely valuable for online sellers in the context of Facebook tightening the current regulations on running fake and fake goods.

Thus, instead of spending a new page, ‘begging’ for a green Facebook level, the way to take back someone else is much easier.

Get personal information

Today, nick Facebook is not just a single account. Thanks to the one-step login application (SSO), users can use Facebook nick to quickly log in to many other apps, games or websites.

Therefore, losing your nick also means not only exposing your email, phone number, but also your account login to countless other things, in case you use it. Things will get worse if Facebook email and password coincide with your bank account, personal email.

Sell ​​your body (via)

Not all Facebook nicknames are valid, keep the admin rights of fanpage or large group, but why are you still losing your nick?

Because even the most worthless Facebook nicknames can be used for spam spam purposes, tag a bunch of friends, send friend invitations or massively like fan pages, collectively called seeding. Of course, these nicknames will then be straightened by Facebook, but if any hacker cares about that.

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The channels for selling nick Facebook are still active.

The ‘lep’ Facebook nick in general can still be traded, resold in large numbers to those who need it. The person who needs it here may be an online seller who needs a bulk clone nick to comment around, seeding to increase engagement. Or the page administrator needs a nick clone to increase video views, increase post engagement.

Such Facebook nicknames are called corpses, or via. Because it is the unknown nick but can still exist on Facebook like a real person, with the help of an automatic tool.

But not only a Vietnamese nick, any foreign nick has the same effect (increase views, increase interaction, own a green page to run ads). Therefore, as long as the nick of Facebook can fall into the sights of the Vietnamese hackers, if not careful.

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Source : Genk