00:00Who are these ghost hackers?
00:18These hackers are targeting the accounts of dead people.
00:22Know the whole story.
00:24How do ghost hackers work?
00:26What can you do?
00:28Cybercrime is increasing rapidly.
00:31Scammers are using new methods to target people.
00:36These hackers are not sparing people even after their death.
00:40Actually, the new target of scammers are the dead people.
00:44Such hackers are known as ghost hackers.
00:49Scammers are targeting people in many ways.
00:53But this method is new and is in progress.
00:57For this, hackers keep an eye on social media
01:00and become active as soon as news of someone's death comes.
01:04Let's see how hackers do this whole story.
01:08How do ghost hackers work?
01:11As soon as ghost hackers get information about someone's death,
01:15they start hacking their social media accounts and other accounts.
01:21For this, first they collect all the information about that person.
01:26For example, they hack his social media and collect all the details.
01:31After this, they use their old handcuffs for hacking.
01:35Along with social engineering, they use other methods
01:38to hack someone's account.
01:41Apart from this, they crack weak passwords,
01:44answer security questions and try to reset the password.
01:49Once they get access to someone's account,
01:53they commit many crimes.
01:56Because the last target of these scammers is to earn money,
02:00they work in the same direction after getting access to an account.
02:05They can take advantage of spam from that account or their chats.
02:10What can you do?
02:12Social media platforms offer an alternative to managing dead people's accounts.
02:17For example, a user can decide on Facebook
02:20that what will happen to his account after his death.
02:24Who can manage it?
02:26Or his profile will be deactivated.
02:29Not only Facebook, such features are also available on Instagram and X.
02:33On all these platforms, you should go to Settings and turn this setting on.
02:38You will have to go to the Memorialization option and select Legacy Account.
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