GOT WARNING “UNUSUAL INSTAGRAM LOGIN ATTEMPT FROM SAMSUNG SM-G935FT”? NOBODY IS HACKING YOUR INSTAGRAM

Recently many social media users were concerned about an alleged hacking campaign affecting Instagram, after reports of login attempts made from “Samsung sm-g935F” appeared. Finally, the specialists report that there is nothing to fear, since this has only to do with some technical procedures on this platform and the permissions requested by some additional apps.

There are several apps to add additional features to Instagram, such as new filters, monitoring the number of followers, loop videos, image editing and downloading files from the app.

To function properly, these apps require access to some permissions on the user’s Instagram account, specified by specialists. However, these apps do not explicitly request such permissions and do not have Permission from Instagram. 

So how do these apps access Instagram user account data? To get started, they must “identify themselves” to the platform, a procedure known as “handshake”. It is during this process that the problem that this article focuses on originates.

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