Snapchat suffers fruitful spam attack
Definitely the messaging application Snapchat is not going through its best moment. At least as far as reputation is concerned. And it is that despite the growing number of users and millions of investment dollars, their security issues are surfacing day after day. The last case turns out to be an attack by spam which is sending a large number of users an image and an Internet address about fruit smoothiesAn attack that supposedly stems from the theft of data suffered by the application at the beginning of the year or from problems with the security of user accounts
The fact has been made known thanks to an editor of the specialized medium Wired, who has suffered this curious attack in his flesh. Thus, he affirms that several of his Snapchat contacts would have alerted him a few days ago about the strange messages they were receiving from his own account Messages that included photos of natural smoothies made with fruit and that urge the recipient to visit a web page A message with clear overtones of spam or abusive to get visits on said web page, annoy and demonstrate the lack of control of Snapchatabout problems with your application.
This is an issue that Snapchat is aware of.In fact, according to the aforementioned editor, Joe Brown, an anonymous representative of Snapchat claims that this type of attack has been taking place for a couple of days, being in most cases an attack in which someone has the user account and password of that user. However, they also state that there is no indication of an attack using brute force tactics.
There is no doubt if this is reminiscences of the attack suffered on the first day of 2014, when the information fromwas obtained 4, 6 million Snapchat users, or if, on the contrary, it is a problem of users choosing protections and passwords too much simple and that coincide with other own data. In any case, a problem that does not seem too widespread but that many users are complaining about on other social networks such as Twitter under the hashtag snapfroot that mentions to the web page that is incited to visit in these attacks and where they show the images received.
In the face of such events, and if any user receives such messages from a known account, it is best to notify said sender that his account has been hacked Therefore, it is best to create a new, more secure and powerful password that prevents access to these users who seek to create spam massively. And of course, do not visit said web page and avoid forwarding or sharing it as happens in the application WhatsApp, since you only get more hype.
Certainly a new stain on the career of Snapchat which, despite everything, continues to grow in popularity, especially inUnited States where the formula of ephemeral messages that self-destruct in a few seconds seems to be taking hold especially well among young people
