Cybercrime is increasing rapidly. Scammers are using new methods to target people. These hackers are not leaving people even after their death. Actually, the new target of scammers are dead people. Such hackers have been named Ghost hacker.
Although scammers are targeting people in many ways, but this method is new and is in trend these days. For this, hackers keep an eye on social media and become active as soon as the news of someone’s death comes. Let us know how hackers carry out this whole story.
How do Ghost Hackers work?
As soon as Ghost Hackers get to know about someone’s death, they start hacking their social media accounts and other accounts. For this, they first collect all the information related to that person. For example, they search his social media and collect all the details.
After this, they adopt their old tricks to break in. They break into someone’s account using social engineering and other methods. Apart from this, they try to crack weak passwords and reset the password by answering security questions.
Once they get access to someone’s account, they commit many crimes. Since the ultimate target of these scammers is to earn money, they work in that direction after getting access to an account. They can send spam from that account or take advantage of their chats.
What can you do?
Social media platforms provide the option to manage the accounts of dead people. For example, on Facebook, a user can decide what will happen to his account after his death. Who can manage it or his profile will be deactivated.
Not only Facebook, such features are also available on Instagram and X. On all these platforms, you should go to the settings and turn on this setting. You have to go to the Memorialization option and select the legacy account.