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How to Hack into an Instagram Account

When I’m not studying videos of raccoons online (know your enemy!), I’m fielding requests from wannabe hackers all around the world because I work for Hacker Highschool. So, wannabe hackers tend to think our curriculum is there as a checklist of scriptkiddie tools that lets them DoS your online competition of Banjo Hero or creep into private Instagram accounts.

And it is. But it isn’t.

First, I recognize that hacking an Instagram password is wrong. I get it. Even if it’s their brother’s Instagram account they want to get into. Because it’s family that makes it okay, I guess. So yes, it's illegal, but being illegal doesn't make it wrong. But it’s wrong because guessing a password isn’t hacking, and not because it’s their brother. And this is why so many nascent hacker-wannabes who want to learn hacking don’t really want to learn hacking. They want to learn computer magic, and it doesn’t really work like that.

How it works is actual work. And it’s a grind sometimes. What’s strange is that so many people today can spend actual days virtually cutting virtual trees in a virtual world to get to level three tree warrior, but won’t spend an hour trying requests through Tamper Data to understand how Instagram on the web is authenticating people differently than the app. Strange because both are really not much more than pushing a cursor around a screen.

So, teaching you hacking is partly about teaching you how to set up and execute a kind of work grind. Then there’s the mindset thing too. But you know what, you need a mindset to get out of bed and go to work too, and that trumps the hacker mindset in the mornings. So, let’s leave the hacker mindset for those who already have the will to do the work grind mindset, because you won’t have one without the other.

The last part of teaching you to hack an Instagram account is that by the time I teach you what you need to know with OS, protocols, services, daemons, applications, authentication, and encryption, and what you need to do with hiding, relaying, bouncing, testing, fuzzing, tracing, trying, retrying, and learning from your frequent failures, you’ll know too much about how little you really know and how you could get caught doing it. So, you probably won’t be doing anything illegal. They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but when we’re talking about a skill like hacking that focuses on knowledge-gettin’ then you can expect to quickly have more than enough knowledge to see your own foolishness.

Unless you want me to just tell you to use the instacrack tool for Windows available on the ISECOM website to just put in an account name and view private account pictures. But that’s telling, not teaching, and it’s running a tool and not hacking. Also, don’t ask me how to cook if you want me to show you how to warm up a TV dinner.

But if that’s really what you want, then you never wanted to be a hacker, which means your life is about only having enough knowledge to be dangerous. Which is okay if you want to be an amateur assassin or a cashier in a natural foods store for the rest of your life. Not judging. We all have our dreams. But then you’re looking in the wrong place.

Next thing to understand: hacking isn't a tool, it's a methodology. You likely won't be able to hack an established service without considerable time spent learning its operations and interactions. Which isn’t necessarily hard. It’s actually pretty straight-forward.

The fact of this is that there's only two ways to steal anything: either you take it, or someone gives it to you. You need to trick Instagram to give you their credentials. Or you need to trick the person whose credentials you want to steal into giving it to you. Or you need to take it from them, or Instagram. But it's likely you won't be able to take it from Instagram. Not impossible, just not likely because they have a lot more people with a lot more experience working on securing it then you have for breaking it. Supposedly. Who knows? Maybe you’ll get lucky. People win the lottery all the time. That’s why so many people play it.

Then those two ways actually expand into four tactics that you try against both the target sender and target receiver. These four:

  • Induction – analyzing the target environment where the interactions happen (OS, app type, app development language, etc. ). The environment is completely under the target’s control, so it’s important to figure out how they set up their applications to live there.
  • Inquest – capturing and reading emanations from the target (domain services, errors, heat signatures, power spikes, info leaks in packet padding, etc.). As any family will tell you, from bath tubs to babies, everything leaks. It’s the same with computers. The Internet exists because protocols play nice, communicate, and share, or else you’d never get online and go anywhere. So, ask and find out what’s sharing what. And the better you listen, the more you know.
  • Interaction – triggering responses from the target by sending all possible types of interactions in all possible ways (TCP flag mutations, ICMP type and code mutations, etc.). Systems are designed to communicate with each other but it’s a needs-based, mono-thematic language similar to that as found in snow monkeys and teenage boys. Tell them the wrong things and you’ve lost them. But lose them the right way and they might give you a surprise, like access.
  • Intervention – determining the resources the target needs and either starving them, or flooding them and forcing them to behave in a way that is outside their designed response (DNS, power, cooling, unsanitized inputs, ARP replies, etc.). Do the thing the designers didn’t anticipate to ever happen and you’ll force the system into doing something insecure.

So there. Use those four. Now you know where your targets are and the tactics to try. That leaves you with a few options in your grind. If you need more specific examples on you how you would apply these four tactics to real-world, how would you take over your brother’s Instagram account, here's five common ones to get you started:

  • Use Inquest and take it from him using shoulder surfing. Just watch him type in his password without him knowing.  
  • Use Intervention and take it from him by sniffing the WiFi he uses- but again, man-in-the-middle attacks are work to set up if it's not your WiFi. Same with setting up a website that looks like Instagram for him to log into and then captures the password instead and then forwards him onto the real Instagram site so he doesn't know you took it.
  • Use Induction by having him use your phone or computer to log into Instagram. Since you control the device you can control the environment and capture anything typed into it.
  • Use Interaction and have Instagram give it to you by exploiting their process of lost passwords. That takes a little thinking, but if he's really your brother then you may have access to his email or computer or something else where you can exploit that vector.
  • Finally, put all four tactics together and mount a multi-stage attack by putting malware on his system. You need a RAT - a remote access Trojan - to take over his computer. You'll also need to know how to get it on his system without his antivirus finding it. If it's a mobile device you have even more work ahead of you. And if the malware goes rogue and infects other systems or doesn't respond the way you want it to, then you have way bigger problems.

Now I’d like to tell you don’t do things that have worked before because system designers learn from their mistakes and the mistakes made by others. Unfortunately, they don’t. It’s not like Engineering students are forced to take a competency exam in all the mistakes previously done in engineering. Oh, if only! I would totally take that class just for fun! But they don’t, so feel free to try things that worked in the past.

So that's it. No matter what you do, it will require more than just a tool. Because if was a tool that does some magic and then you get in, then you probably can’t afford that tool. Good magic isn’t cheap. Think about it: anyone who went through all the hard work to figure out how to do that wouldn't release a tool, as that info is way too profitable.

So, there’s no Windows-based instacrack tool either. Just kidding! I’m sure you already checked though. 

How To hack Someone's Instagram Account

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How To hack Someone's Instagram Account

Maat Hernandez

Maat Hernandez

Python Engineer at Ricoh USA, Inc.

Published Mar 5, 2023

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Instagram has become a vital part of our lives, and it is no surprise that people are interested in learning how to hack an Instagram account. While hacking someone's account is illegal and unethical, ethical hacking can be used to enhance security and protect against malicious attacks. Ethical hacking involves identifying vulnerabilities in a system and exploiting them to improve security. In this blog post, we will discuss how to hack someone's Instagram account.

I. What is ethical hacking?

Ethical hacking is a process of identifying security vulnerabilities in a system or network and using them to improve security. It is an authorized and legal way of identifying weaknesses in a system to enhance its security. Ethical hackers are also known as white hat hackers, and they use their skills to help organizations and businesses identify and fix security vulnerabilities. Ethical hacking is crucial in protecting personal and sensitive information from cyber-criminals.

II. How to perform ethical hacking on Instagram accounts

To perform ethical hacking on an Instagram account, you need to identify the vulnerabilities in the system. Some of the common vulnerabilities include weak passwords, unsecured internet connections, and outdated software. Once you have identified the vulnerability, you can exploit it to gain access to the account. However, it is important to obtain permission from the account owner before attempting to hack into their account. This will ensure that your actions are legal and ethical.

III. Tools and techniques used in ethical hacking

There are several tools and techniques used in ethical hacking. One of the most common tools is Metasploit, which is an open-source framework that helps identify and exploit vulnerabilities. Other tools include Nmap, which is a port scanner that identifies open ports and their services, and Wireshark, which is a packet sniffer that captures and analyzes network traffic. Additionally, social engineering techniques such as phishing and pretexting can also be used to exploit human weaknesses and gain access to an account.

IV. Conclusion

In conclusion, ethical hacking is a legal and authorized process of identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities in a system or network. It is an important practice that helps improve security and protect personal and sensitive information. However, it is important to obtain permission from the account owner before attempting to hack into their account. Ethical hacking is not about breaking laws or violating someone's privacy but is instead about enhancing security and preventing malicious attacks. By following ethical practices and using the right tools and techniques, ethical hacking can be an effective way to enhance security and protect sensitive information.

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What to do if someone tries to access your Facebook or Instagram

A notification pops up on the smartphone screen: "We detected an unusual login attempt from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. " The first reaction is panic, especially if you live in, say, Vladivostok. What could it be? System failure? Or is someone from the other side of the world really encroaching on your account?

There is no way to panic in such a situation - this will only play into the hands of the burglars. So that you can remain calm and survive this incident with minimal losses, we will arm you with knowledge: we tell you what the matter might be and how to act.

What could have happened

First, let's figure out how a stranger could gain access to your account at all. There are several options here.

Data leak and wildcard attack

A third party site where you registered might have been leaked. Having acquired a list of logins, e-mail addresses and passwords, scammers use them for a substitution attack, that is, they try to enter stolen credentials on many sites. Unfortunately, many people set the same passwords to protect their accounts in different services - this is what criminals are counting on.

Alternatively, your Facebook or Instagram credentials may have been leaked from the app you trusted them to. For example, in June last year, thousands of passwords from Instagram accounts leaked to the network, the owners of which used the Social Captain service to buy likes and followers. It turned out that he did not encrypt customer data, and anyone could get access to it. It is reasonable to assume that many users of the service have since experienced hacking attempts.

Phishing

It may also be that some time ago you fell for phishing, and your login with a password fell into the hands of scammers directly. They clicked on some link, and on the page that opened, very similar to the Facebook or Instagram login screen, they entered their credentials. So they ended up with the criminal. For example, most recently, our experts discovered a phishing campaign in which victims were lured to phishing pages by the threat of blocking their Facebook account due to copyright infringement.

Password theft

Your password may have been stolen by malware you picked up somewhere. Many Trojans have a built-in keylogger, a program that registers keystrokes on the keyboard. All logins and passwords that the victim enters, the keylogger directly passes into the hands of attackers.

Access token stolen

Someone may have stolen your access token. So that you don't have to enter a password every time you log into Facebook or Instagram, it saves a small piece of information needed to log in to your computer, which is called a token or access token. If an attacker steals the current token, he will be able to log into the account without a username and password.

Tokens can be stolen in different ways. Sometimes this is done through vulnerabilities in Facebook itself - for example, in 2018, attackers were able to get access tokens to 50 million Facebook accounts. Also, attackers can use browser extensions to steal tokens.

Login from someone else's device

It's possible that you logged into Facebook or Instagram from someone else's device - at a party, in an Internet cafe, in a hotel lobby, and so on - and did not log out after that. Or, for example, they forgot to log out of their account on a device that they had already sold or donated. Now someone has discovered your oversight and logged into your account.

False alarm (phishing again)

Your account may not have been hacked at all, but they are trying with a fake suspicious login notification. This is the same phishing that we talked about above, but a slightly different version of it. Instead of the threat of blocking, scammers can use fake suspicious login notifications with a link to phishing sites similar to the login page. Attackers expect that the victim in a panic will go to a fake site and enter their username and password there.

And what to do?

We have sorted out the possible causes, now it's time to act. To get started, log into your account - but in any case not through the link from the notification (as we already know, it can lead to a phishing site), but through the mobile application or by entering the address in the browser manually. If the password does not match and you can no longer log into your account, refer to the detailed instructions on what to do if your account has already been hijacked, which we published earlier.

If you are still allowed into your account, go to your account settings and verify the authenticity of the notification. For each social network, the path to the desired settings item will be different - see how this is done on Facebook and Instagram. Then go to the “Account Logins” section: if there are no suspicious entries there, then everything is in order, and the message about the hack was still phishing.

If you really see a suspicious one in the list of logins to your account, then it's time to hurry up to take protective measures - timely actions will help soften the blow:

  • Log out of your account on all devices. On Instagram, you will have to manually end each session in menu Account Logins . And on Facebook, this can be done with a single click in the Security and login section in the settings. This will reset the access tokens.
  • Make sure that the correct phone number and email address are specified in the account settings: attackers could change the data so that the link or code to change the password is sent to them. If they managed to do this, change it back to yours.
  • Set a new password that is strong and one that you don't use anywhere else. If you're not sure you can remember it, save it in a password manager. By the way, at the same time the program will help you come up with a reliable combination.
  • Turn on two-factor authentication to make it harder for attackers to break into your accounts, even if they know your password.
  • After that, be sure to check all your devices with a reliable antivirus to make sure that they are free of malware. Attention to security settings along with good protection will make your account your fortress.
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Hacking Instagram accounts through copyright infringement notices

Gained a few thousand followers on Instagram? Even more? Congratulations! You are a real celebrity! But in addition to laurels, well-known Insta bloggers have a greater risk of account theft. Not so long ago, scammers invented a new scheme to hijack popular Instagram accounts. We will tell about it now.

"Your account will be permanently deleted due to copyright infringement," the email reads. It looks quite official: here you have both the official header and the Instagram logo, and the sender’s address is very similar to the real one – in most cases it is [email protected] or [email protected].

The notice says you have only 24 hours (48 hours in some versions) to file your appeal. In the letter itself, you will also find a button for appealing the complaint - Review complaint. If you click it, you will be taken to an extremely believable phishing page.

This page tells you how much the service cares about copyright protection. But the most important thing is that there is a link on the page, according to which you can allegedly appeal the deletion of your account. To make everything look even more natural, the page has a long list of language choices, but it's there only for show - whatever you choose, the page is displayed exclusively in English.

After clicking on the account deletion appeal link, you will be prompted to enter your Instagram account information. But that's not all - then a new message appears: "We need to authenticate your application and make sure that the email address matches the one specified in Instagram." If you agree to address verification, a list of possible domains will appear on the screen. Selecting one of them, you will see a prompt to enter an email address and (suddenly!) password from it.

You will then see a message for just a few seconds that your request is being processed, after which you will be redirected to the real Instagram site. This is another trick that adds credibility to the scam.

This is not the first time popular Instagram users have been targeted by scammers. Recently, a wave of thefts took place under the pretext of obtaining a blue checkmark - a verification badge (Verified Badge).

How to protect your Instagram account

As soon as your username and password are in the hands of attackers, they will gain access to your Instagram profile and be able to change data to recover it. They can then demand a ransom to get the account back, or start sending spam and other malicious content from it. Not to mention what "open spaces" in front of them will open the password from your email.

Here are some tips to help keep your Instagram account safe: