Beware: Those Instagrams Of Fruit Want To Hijack Your Account

Beware: Those Instagrams Of Fruit Want To Hijack Your Account

Heads up: Instagram is weathering a bit of a spam attack right now and as you may have noticed, it’s drowning in fruit. This rather large wave of juicy spam seems to be pushing some sort of “miracle fruit diet” and it could mess up your account if you fall for it.

Beware: Those Instagrams Of Fruit Want To Hijack Your Account
Initially spotted by GigaOM, it’s a pretty straight-forward sort of spam attack. If you click on one of the dirty fruit-links, you’ll wind up on a fake BBC page, your account bio will change and it will start sending out tainted fruit photos of its own.

To fight back, Instagram has already sent a password reset email out to a chunk of its users, and if you got one, it’s always a good idea to follow through. This will all sort itself out eventually, and it doesn’t seem like there’s any serious damage being done, but if you’re cruising the ‘grams, it might be best to put off today’s serving of fruit until tomorrow. [GigaOM via The Next Web]

Top image by Sergii Figurnyi/Shutterstock


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