Most people have asked themselves this question at least once. Someone does not trust their soul mate, others have competitors and enemies, and some are just curious.
Here you need to remember one thing once and for all: there is no way to do it. Whatever offers you come across on the world wide web: services of sites, applications (free and paid), all this is guaranteed deception and fraud. A striking example is the PageHack program and its analogues.
In reality, all of these programs and sites usually have different goals.
- Lure the user with promises of hacking the correspondence, so that he eventually pays the indicated amount to view the result. Naturally, after payment, he will not receive anything.
- Hack the account of the person who applied. Hacking sites like http://vk-messages.ru/ offer the user full access to their page before starting all actions. But here it is enough to think logically: are you really ready to give full access to your page to a service that positions itself as a private message cracker? The hacking software also sometimes asks you to enter your username and password. Obviously what will follow.
- Infect your computer with viruses, advertising banners, application installers. By downloading software for hacking pages and correspondence from dubious places, you risk the security of your system very much. Trojans, viruses, keyloggers and other malicious software products are often spread this way.
- Blackmail by addressing the victim. If you wrote to a scammer from a real page or provided personal data about yourself, he may start extorting money under the pretext of handing you over to the one you asked to hack.
And these are far from all the options for the bad consequences that can await when looking for a way to view another person's personal correspondence. To once and for all protect yourself from them, you need to remember that you cannot read other people's messages in any way. And this is not a moral assessment of behavior, but a technical fact. There is only one way - to hack the page itself. And here there are already many options.
The same rule applies here. No need to use suspicious services and programs that offer hacking. All of them are likely to be fraudulent or infect your computer with malware. Among the effective methods of hacking a page, you need to choose those where only you and the victim of the hack act. We will not describe in detail the instructions for stealing an account here, there is a separate article about this. But in general terms, the options are as follows:
- Saving username and password on your device. If you personally know a person, invite him to enter VK from your PC or gadget. Pre-set the settings for saving all data entered in the browser or run special software for these purposes. It is easier to do this in mobile applications for Android and iPhone, since giving your friend your phone to check VK is not such a rare practice.
- Install a Trojan or keylogger on the victim's computer that will send all the keys pressed to the email address. Sometimes you just need to follow the link to install. The link can be masked. So you can find out the login and password of the account, log in to it and read the correspondence.
- Interception of cookies using a token key. There are many ways to find out the user's token; there is also a separate article about this. The easiest way is to create an application that will send to the site with a token in the address bar. You just have to persuade the victim to launch the application, get a token, enter it into the cookie manager program and all of its cookies will appear in your browser, which means that the VK account will be authorized.
These and other hacking methods involve activity from the victim. The person must follow the link, give you information about himself, accept some files, or correspond with you.
All this only seems difficult to achieve. In fact, various forums and marketplaces are full of offers for the sale of archives with hundreds or even thousands of hacked pages (each literally for a penny). From this it can be understood that people are easily amenable to simple manipulations and experienced crackers are able to do their job on the stream.
But back to the main topic - correspondence. Let's say you gained access to your profile by hacking a page. Go ahead.
How to read other people's correspondence unnoticed
If your initial goal is to monitor a person's correspondence, then after hacking his account, proceed with caution.
- Do not click on any dialogs if they contain unread SMS. Also, don't click on the message toast notifications. Seeing the read SMS, a person will immediately suspect that something was wrong.
- Ignore invitations to groups, publics, meetings, and especially be careful if you are added to the conversation or the person is already in it. Better not to go into them at all. Even if there are no unread messages, the turnover can be high and people there often exchange pictures, reposts, etc. In these cases, there is no warning Typing message. You just won't have time to react.
- Don't like, don't leave comments. There is no need for explanations at all.
- Best of all, go to someone else's VK from third-party applications that have an invisibility function and do not inform about reading messages, such as Kate Mobile. This will greatly facilitate the inconspicuous stay in the profile, because the first item will be performed automatically when the option is turned on.
Permitted methods of espionage VK
Why allowed? Yes, just in them you will not have to deceive anyone, infect with viruses, use third-party programs and even communicate with anyone. True, here you will not read other people's letters. But then look at the personal photos that are exchanged by interlocutors in the LAN, files sent to communities and to each other, read comments in groups. These methods have been working for many years and are still relevant in 2017.
Access to photos and other files in general search
When one user sends another any document, it is saved on the VK server and then freely indexed. Every day there is a huge amount of new materials, and many people do not even suspect that a personal photo, a file that they "secretly" shared with an interlocutor, are available to everyone at any time. You need to do the following:
Reading user comments
To find out what comments a particular user has left, just use the special link http://vk.com/feed?obj=12053604&q=§ion=mentions. Instead of numbers, after the = sign, insert the person's ID and you will see his comments for the entire time of using social. networks.
However, this method has limitations. You can not read comments that have not been answered, as well as if they are posted in closed communities.
Social networks today are the main mechanism of personal communication between people in the Internet space. It is used much more often than classic forums, mail and even Skype. There are methods that allow you to read someone else's correspondence on social networks.Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki, Facebook, My world
Let's take a closer look at them.
The 5 most popular working methods:
Hacking the page and guessing the password
The most polar means of gaining access to an account on a social network are various methods of hacking pages and obtaining a password for accessing the page vk.com, odnoklassniki.ru, facebook.com, my.mail.ru
Hacking via email
A rather vulnerable spot in the security of an account on a social network is the email associated with it. Having gained access to the "soap", you can send a request to change the password on the social network and, accordingly, log in under a new one after reading the correspondence. Hacking e-mail is organized using special programs, while a number of services (for example, mail.ru), have great vulnerability and many software "holes" that allow you to take over access to e-mail.
Sometimes special knowledge is not even required: often a mobile / home phone number is put on the password to the mail, and in the security question / answer, by default, there is a question about the mother's maiden name, therefore, having such information, it is easy to get the necessary access first to the mail, and then to your social network account.
Password guessing through "brute force"
For a long time, programs have been developed that bypass the protection system against multiple attempts to enter a password - knowing the login, such a system tries to guess passwords for an account. The most popular applications for such tasks: Vk.Com Brut Check Spam, Namepass, Combine Soft, Brutefоrce with multi-thrеads. By analogy, a password can be picked up manually, filling in there possible known data about a person.
Fake email from service
One of the well-known hacking methods is sending a letter allegedly from a social network service, where you need to enter the login / password of the page, or a code word to restore access. In this case, the letter itself is sent to the addressee with a fake address - you can do this manually, having basic knowledge of HTML, or through special services like anmase.ru.
Alternative - Trojan horse in any letter of neutral content, which, when launched, reads all passwords and logins in the system, however, modern antiviruses with the latest databases detect them rather quickly, and the user himself, most likely, will not launch an unknown executable file attached to the letter.
Cookie usage
All Internet browsers have cookies enabled by default - files with encrypted information about visits to pages necessary for faster reloading. Cookies also contain usernames and passwords, however, encrypted with a simple key. Having received these files, you can decrypt the data (using programs, for example, Vkontakte Cookie Password Recovery for VK-network) and thus get to personal correspondence on the social network.
Phishing sites
A popular method of obtaining a login and password for a page is to create fake websites with a design identical to the social network, but with a different address. If a person logs into it, by inertia he can drive in a login with a password, which will immediately go to the owner of the phishing portal.
Professional work
Professional hackers, for appropriate remuneration, combine the above hacking methods, and also apply their own unique algorithms, after which they exchange access to the social network account for money.
Keyloggers
Keyloggers are a whole class of programs that are secretly installed on PCs and mobile gadgets. These applications write special codes for characters entered by the user, simultaneously binding them to the current windows and input elements and monitoring running processes. After collecting information and secret surveillance, they transmit the data to a third party via an Internet connection.
The best option for obtaining confidential information is often not determined by antiviruses with the latest virus databases, since keyloggers do not show signs of a virus program. Such software works differently depending on the code, the most advanced ones are not displayed in system processes and are disguised as hardware drivers.
Main types:
- Hardware - mechanical miniature devices built into the keyboard. Does not require installation of programs, they work both when the computer / mobile phone is turned on and off.
- Software - classic applications that must be installed on devices.
- Acoustic - electronic special systems that monitor the sounds of pressing keys from a distance and convert these sound vibrations into a text form.
The first and third types of such keyloggers are usually inaccessible to ordinary users, so the second option is relevant for the user.
The most famous software keyloggers are Elite Keylogger, Keylogger Net, AutoKeySpy, NeoSpy.
Human factor
Access to personal correspondence in a person's social network can be obtained illegally through the technical representatives of the service who maintain the operation of the system, as well as from law enforcement agencies who send a request to the administration of the social network to provide access to the user's page in the largest social networksVkontakte, Odnoklassniki, My World and detailing of personal messages. Both methods are, of course, illegal.
Finding the right people within the same "Vkontakte" is quite problematic, and you can completely forget about foreign social networks. Inquiries through the police are very expensive. Therefore, spyware may be the best option.
Warning and afterword
Beware of scammers who offer, for a nominal or small fee, to organize access to personal correspondence in social networks of any person. Avoid fraudulent sites that promise to provide the required access in a few seconds and require you to send an SMS to a short number for this. The process of obtaining unauthorized access to a person's page on a social network is quite lengthy and lengthy, in most cases it requires an individual approach and working out several options for obtaining a username and password. Along with the responsibility for these actions - think about whether you need it?
Users ask this question very often. Apparently, someone is haunted by the correspondence of the second half ... Be that as it may, the interest in other people's messages is very high, so today we will answer the question whether it is possible to read them.
Here's the answer - you can't. Why? Because this is private information that only the owner has access to. Of course, he can provide you with access data, but how often have you seen a person who trusted someone with the login and password from his VK page? That's the same.
Very often you can find ads like "I will hack any page, payment is such and such." Some people believe in these kinds of ads and give their money away! Let's explain why this cannot be done.
- Firstly, this is a deception - as soon as the "hacker" receives the funds (he may require an advance payment, for example, he will ask to put some of the funds on a phone number), he will immediately evaporate.
- Secondly, if the "hacker" promises to prove that he will hack the page and change the data on it, it means that he will simply agree about this with the owner of the page and the latter will be aware of who is behind it all.
- And thirdly, even if you were suddenly lucky to find such a person who, due to certain circumstances, nevertheless ended up on the user's page, the latter can safely contact the police - yes, criminal cases are opened for breaking the pages! In this case, not only the “hacker” is found guilty, but also the one who asked him to hack the page. Do you want to become an accomplice?
In the vastness of the network, you can find a large number of all kinds of programs that supposedly allow you to read someone else's correspondence. Of course, this is just a fake. When downloading and installing such a program, you may be waiting for:
- Viruses with Trojans that steal information from the user's computer.
- SMS blocker that blocks the system.
- Mandatory and supposedly free SMS messages required to install the program, which, of course, turn out to be paid and not at all cheap.
Tell me honestly, do you still want to read other people's messages? Hopefully not, because it will turn against you anyway. By the way, if you are worried about the security of your page from such "hackers", use the function when you can enter your account only if you enter not only the password, but also the code that will be attached to the linked phone number.
The social network VKontakte is the most popular in Russia. It is used by almost every second resident of the country, so it is of great interest to hackers and ordinary developers who are looking for all kinds of gaps in system protection. Since all user data is stored in a database, it is obvious that it is enough just to find some way to get access to it, after which it will be possible to read other people's correspondence and do many other things.
One of the hackers under the nickname Yoga2016 in an interview with TJournal said that a bug in the VKontakte social network allows you to read other people's correspondence. This is done through the site statistics service SimilarWeb, which allows access to the personal messages of any user, thereby compromising the safety of tens of millions of residents of Russia and other countries who have entrusted their personal data to social networks.
The VKontakte press service quickly reacted to such information and stated that if such a problem exists, then it was created exclusively by third-party developers, which the social network cannot influence in any way. Through the paid version of SimilarWeb, you can get links to 300 of the most popular materials on any website. When the user received such services, then all these links turned out to be personal messages of random users.
This suggests that the SimilarWeb service is able to intercept all private messages and provide access to them via direct links to third parties. It was not possible to view the text in its pure form, so the developer added the extension ".xml" to the endings of the links, thanks to which he was able to get acquainted not only with personal messages of users, but also with other data - photos, sent emoticons, page numbers and many other data.
The social network VKontakte does not see this as a problem, because it was created by third-party developers who use the API incorrectly. According to the press service of the social network, users, when they use third-party applications to use the VKontakte account, themselves consent to the processing and storage of personal information, including correspondence. This means that there is a leak somewhere in the SimilarWeb service, which became possible due to a software bug. With its help, personal messages of any person can be read.
The press service of VKontakte promptly contacted the site and said that it was really not about some kind of vulnerability in the social network, and not about unscrupulous developers. They abused their rights and, for some reason, decided to transfer users' personal data (correspondence) to the SimilarWeb service. At the same time, according to official information, in this way it was possible to receive only 400 tokens, that is, personal data of 400 users. They all entrusted their personal data to an unsafe application.
Currently, on March 6 at 23:30 Moscow time, all dangerous tokens are blocked to protect the personal data of VKontakte users. The social network recommends using only official clients to gain access to your account, because otherwise there is always the possibility of leakage of personal confidential information.
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Good day, dear reader! This blog is dedicated to the topical issues of mobile security that each of you is likely to encounter. Do you think there is a program to read other people's VK messages secretly from the account owner? You will find all the answers in the article! And at the end of the material, I decided to post a small thematic video.
These questions interested me after several cases of hacking of my personal Vkontakte page. Now I often use this social network to communicate with colleagues at work, so I definitely need to be sure that no stranger will be able to access confidential correspondence. Surely there is a program for this, to read other people's VK messages through which anyone could!
I decided to go in search of such software on the Internet. I reviewed a huge number of various sites, installed some applications on my phone. Yes, yes, we are talking specifically about Vkontakte mobile clients for Android, since I often sit in this social network from my phone. As a result, it turned out that there are simply no programs that actually work! There are a lot of scam and all kinds of dubious software, as well as various viruses. Therefore, I advise you to be extremely careful if you decide to put something in your phone. But how to read other people's VK messages in a similar situation? Can attackers find alternatives? More on this below.
I came across an interesting service that allows you to back up any information from the memory of a mobile device. It turns out that downloading a cracker for VK in order to read other people's messages is not at all necessary. The principle of operation of the utility for copying is very simple - a special application is put into the phone, which needs to be configured. I described the whole process in the video after the article, be sure to watch it! Then the program collects the necessary data from the smartphone's memory. These are conversations with preliminary sound recording, and correspondence from popular social networks (including Vkontakte, of course), and text messages. Then the collected data can be studied in the user's personal account, which is located on a separate website.
But what happens if someone secretly puts such an application into your own mobile phone! Antiviruses will not block it, and it is quite easy to hide the shortcut in the settings. Therefore, VK to read other people's messages for free is quite realistic and without specialized software, much more accessible programs. But I will emphasize - it does not matter what kind of service we are talking about. All such utilities work in a similar way, and they were conceived for specific office purposes.
It remains to give the reader some useful safety advice. Be attentive and vigilant! Try not to transfer your mobile device to unknown people, or just to those whom you do not completely trust. It's also not a good idea to hang up on your desk unattended, especially if you have a lot of employees in your office. Then no one can get access to important information.
In conclusion, I present an interesting thematic video that I shot especially for the readers of my blog! In the video, you will learn how to set up the service described above. But do not forget that you cannot install such programs in other people's smartphones! The owner of a mobile phone will probably not like such interference in his personal life.
