Author: China Jiangsu network
Published: 2021-01-12
Recently, a rumor that has been opened up countless times began to spread on the Internet again. This time the version of the rumor "expanded" again, spreading two paragraphs of eloquence, to the effect that sending pictures or videos such as "good morning", "good morning", "good night", "good evening" and "good day" will be hacked, and then bank Personal information such as cards will be stolen, and 500,000 people have been defrauded.
Such pictures and videos are often the most favorite emoticons used by the elders in the family group, and suddenly they are not allowed to post, which is difficult for the aunts and uncles.
Rumors on the Internet, despite their scary battles, are still full of loopholes: For example, Olga Nikolaevna is actually the daughter of the last Tsar Nicholas II of the Russian Empire, not a lawyer at all; and there is no lawyer in Shanghai. The publication "Shanghai China International News" listing a list of telephone numbers from Eastern European countries but claiming to be from "ISIS" is also wrong.
In fact, it is technically not easy to embed phishing programs in pictures and videos. The suffixes of the emoticons, pictures and videos we usually send are mostly ".gif", ".jpg", ".avi", etc., which correspond to animated pictures, single pictures, and video files. If the file is not with the above suffix, then WeChat may remind the user in the form of file transfer or "floating layer" (as shown below). Therefore, it is not difficult to distinguish between normal expressions, pictures, videos, and red envelopes, or other potentially dangerous files. Forwarding normal good morning, good night, greeting pictures and small videos in chat software such as WeChat will not be poisoned.
The Shanghai Rumor Rejection Platform found that similar rumors appeared in Taiwan in 2015. At that time, the Kaohsiung police clarified this on the official page, saying that “please don’t post pictures or videos of good morning or festivals anymore. Many people have already reported the incident...” The information was a rumor and was forwarded on the Internet. Greeting pictures and videos cannot carry viruses. Since then, the rumor has continued to spread, and many local cyber police have also refuted the rumor.
Industry insiders remind that the real need to be more vigilant is to forward unknown types of files through chat tools, mailboxes, etc. You should click carefully when encountering unknown types of files, and do not fill in personal information in the pages sent by netizens.