Avast researchers, Users in Australia, UK, Spain, Poland and France have been attacked by scammers People who leave a comment on a user’s Instagram post and then provide a link that asks you to fill out a survey to get people’s data.
Like this, there are other threats acting through social networks, but the warning has led to the offering of security recommendations in this context.
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Bots (software applications programmed to perform certain tasks) are now getting more complex. Instagram users are increasingly realizing that their stories are liked by many bots. that the company’s algorithm has changed, and most of them are accounts promoting pornographic content or links trying to lure users in to steal their information.
Most robots are fairly simple in design, just a few lines of code with a database, but some are more complex and useful. artificial intelligence (AI)) attempt to imitate humans.
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Instagram, which had about 1.318 million users a few years ago, had already faced a comment attack, the problem is that with the change in algorithms, the image in the stories now draws attention.
According to Meta, the mission is to make this social network a calm and authentic place.
“We want the content you see on Instagram to be real and we block millions of fake and spam accounts every day. We continue to invest in antispam technology and our security and protection team More than 40,000 people focused on keeping spam and other forms of harmful content off our platforms,” the company says.
Measures in place to address accounts of undesirable content include automation that performs millions of checks per second to detect and remove it before it becomes prevalent on the platform.
If they detect possible untrue activity, they ask users to verify who is behind the account.
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But what can be done to stop notifications?
One of the easiest ways is to make your account private, but many users don’t like it or don’t want to miss out on having a public Instagram.
Another option is turn off instagram follow suggestions, so while it won’t completely remove the bots, it might be less and you should only do it from the app’s settings.
The other possibility is that avoid popular hashtags before uploading a story, location or put a very popular hashtag, which is what bots tend to follow, you can also block words and deal with tags.
Another alternative is to block them yourself so you can assist the platform with the process and reports.
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