Good day guys, this is another article from me. Okay, let me rephrase, this is yet another medium to pass an information across, yeah let's get into it. I keep getting a lot of feedbacks from friends, family and random people on social media, saying they have been hacked, well we have a lot of scammers out there stealing people's private information to impersonate them, and maybe ruin their lives on social media doing despicable things with their accounts 😑. I have articulated few things you can look out for when going about your normal routines like checking emails, following up links or visiting random websites. Here you go:

Try preventing phishing by all means.

What is Phishing? According to Merriam Webster dictionary:

A scam by which an email user is duped into revealing personal or confidential information which the scammer can use illicitly

Mostly, phishing happens from the emails you get randomly most of the time, black hat hackers appear lying to be trusted companies to launch this attacks.

Let me give you a formulated scenario If I was a black hat hacker, I'll randomly do footprinting on my prey ( random innocent people ), by getting all the information i need from google by searching either using your image or your full name, google will extend my curiosity to other websites like facebook, twitter, instagram etc. I'll say google is innocent, because it is a search engine, so it has an algorithm in place to look for every occurrence of your image or full name all over www (world wide web), so after finally picking facebook, because I know you're regular on there, I could see your recent post it is only just 5 hrs ago, so i went to your about profile page and copied your email address from there, I cloned facebook using “setoolkit” on kali linux distribution, it is very easy like pretty easy to even do a massive email scam from there, from there i can as well clone the facebook page i need, and send an harvester to your email address ( a facebook login page only ), coming back to your mail you just all of a sudden carelessly clicked on the link from an intruder using facebook to lie, telling you to login, so you just followed the link using your browser to login, then it redirects you to the real Facebook 😮. Do you know what just happened 😂, you've just given your facebook password to the hacker, you just did it, all by yourself 🙄. The hacker did not crack facebook directly to pull your details, but cracked you to snitch ✍. I'll have to check the harvest from the harvester, just like that, I have your email address already then your password all of a sudden.

I’m not the hacker here😂, please try to recognize the fact that this is a formulated scenario 🙌🏾🙏🏾 When the hacker gets it, he changes the email immediately, and then your password, because he has it 👀, yes you gave it out, this is just a technique, they have many ideas to launch attacks than you think they don’t. Ofcourse let me remind you, you cannot change your password back by using forgot password method, because your active email address has also been changed too. Let me give you few solutions .

Check the email sender’s email address anything suspicious, please don’t follow the instructions. Check the domain name in your browser, before you enter your personal information ( is it facebook, And is it secured? ) . Google it and ask questions. Better still, if you’re curious enter a wrong password, the hacker don’t have the luxury to obtain the database from facebook to check if your password is correct or not, so if you enter a wrong password you will not be seeing a try again page 🤔, you had better leave that page immediately.

Always visit websites with secured connections

Encryption ( securing your data, tweaking it to something else) is performed with HTTPS and SSL/TLS, make sure your data is going through a secured website using this protocols. Yes, the hacker can still intercept this connections using MITM attack ( man in the middle ), I am not ready to go into details with MITM, because it is also a form to steal your personal data from you. But if you use a secured connection it will be encrypted, so making your data useless to the hacker. Making use of HTTP only without a S, is like being a soldier, going to war without a weapon, now when your enemy sees you, he can decide what to do with you, either killing you, injuring you or letting you go, but why would you put all your fate into the hands of a stranger in the first place ?? Let be careful

Let me give you few solutions.

Use a VPN ( a virtual protocol network ), if you don’t trust the website e.g Nord VPN. Always visit a secured website using HTTPS, SSL/TLS, if it is not secured your browser will inform you. Before you enter your details still be vigilant, and observe because it might still be a secured HTTPS connection trying to harvest your details, it is all in the source code. e.g get more likes on instagram using our website, just enter all your details here, in 5 seconds 50000 likes will be added, and it is free, because you’re looking for free things, see what you’ve caused ( social engineering ).

Social engineering is a deception

This is a way of tricking you to give your own details without your knowledge of it, it is like changing your reality into a game, and telling you to kill a person, of course you’ll think it is actually a game, you will always try to win by following laid out instructions. It is a deception to make you vulnerable to them, making you a dummy to them 😐😑.

In conclusion, this is an article to help prevent common tricks used on random people, it covers just at least 50% of the 100%, so indirectly I’m telling you this is not all.

please stay safe and practice social distancing