Britney Spears' Instagram Used By Russian Hacker Group
The social media giants like Instagram, which is on its way to hitting a billion users this years, surely have a number of harmless comments posted each day. But, will be there some occasional moments when some clever hacker posts some comments that instructing a malware how to get in touch with its controllers or servers?! A latest report says a Big yes! The Slovakian security company ESET said on Tuesday that a Russian espionage hacker group called, Turla has created such cleverly hidden comment. The interesting thing is that it was on the popular American singer Britney spears. Instagram comments on the American singer just got used to store the location of a C&C server (command & control server) of the 'Turla' hackers. The shocking operation was made by using a Mozilla firefox extension, in which a hidden backdoor in it. The team said it is one of the tool owned by the group, which is believed to be funded by the Russian government. Off course, The singer might not ...