The mechanism is as simple as effective – after clicking on the link included in a very tempting message, we call the code that does all the work for us – it is able to change passwords, ownership of your Facebook group, to manage rolls on Facebook pages and advertising accounts, check your card details, photos or even message content. Once widespread in emails, today adapted to the Facebook reality – based on people’s curiosity, it collects its toll every day, especially in conjunction with automated scripts written by the Internet “thieves”, with whom some of you might have had an encounter. Professionals call it social engineering. The same pattern of infecting user’s devices with a prepared virus is known for years. The mechanism itself is quite simple, and we sometimes let them hack our pages with our curiosity and recklessness. And with the right piece of code, even a newbie could do it. How were such young people able to carry out serious hack attacks? What does the attack look like?īasically, to hack a group or a Facebook page is not that complicated at all.
The vast majority of them turned out to be middle school or high school students who were looking for ways to kill boredom and build a sense of belonging. However, this could be deduced from their behavior and their language. Everyone used false names, and when it turned out that someone allowed someone logged in to a real account to enter the group, it ended up with a permanent ban (I didn’t know that before the infiltration – so I assume my personal data was super helpful here, too).ĭue to false identities, it was impossible to figure out who the Putin’s Bastards really were or what they did. Of course, it was impossible to verify the members of the group. (* I will explain the meaning of the quote in the following paragraphs) Who hacks Facebook groups?Īfter I read all this rubbish, one more conclusion came to my mind. The group members posted tons of stupid content (including the memed) but sometimes they would openly ask each other about harming new people:ĭo you know any losers who have nice groups cause I am stuck at home doin’ nothin’ today? Seriously, they didn’t even do it for money as some online trolls have done before. I was speechless seeing so much hatred resulting purely from boredom and the lack of anything better to do. Should you need any assistance, I will also be happy to help you in private – just complete a form. If you need help in recovering your account, regaining access to a hacked Facebook page, or simply would like to know more about safety on Facebook, sign up for our Facebook group where we help each other with such issues. Endlessly entertaining, isn’t it?Įspecially when the new administrator is one of the bullies and the former administrator … well, they didn’t even realize that they are no longer the administrator. Taking over a vegan group to write about meat, a weight loss group to call names those who share their progress, or a group for moms. I couldn’t explain to myself why or how anyone could derive any pleasure from such activities.
It was however wrong on all kinds of levels – I felt deeply disgusted with the horrible memes posted by the members. The content wasn’t religiously inappropriate, racist or hateful. Why do people hack other people’s groups?īefore the described above happened, I was really fed up with what I was experiencing after a few months of being a member of that group. Unfortunately, I didn’t think about it back then – I was busy analysing the events and the group disappeared in one day, breaking up into several smaller groups (the abovementioned private chats). Instead of waiting, I could’ve watched them as they went. Unfortunately, before I managed to take decent screenshots of more serious actions of the group (a day after a popular Polish newspaper called “Gazeta Wyborcza” published an article about the group), the group admins created private chats to catch the infiltrator. I did it all in order to work out their ways and develop a suitable defense plan that I can share with you. I didn’t pass another “inner test”, and decided to end my private investigation. So at one point, I decided that I had seen enough of their content. They probably already knew that there was an infiltrator among them.
The members of a Polish Facebook group called “Putin’s Bastards” (so-called бп), which was a group engaged in Internet “trolling”. They often belonged to my friends’ friends. With my own eyes, I witnessed the permanent removal of numerous Facebook pages and saw popular groups being hacked. Anyway, I spent a large chunk of the last year inside a Facebook group responsible for hacking other groups and accounts. Perhaps I felt that otherwise it would not work. It might be just me watching too many criminals with the investigative journalists as leading characters.
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