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How To Hack Gmail Account Password:
Hacking Gmail or Google is the second most searched account hacking. Hacking into a Google account gives access not only to Gmail but also to their prominent counterparts such as Android (since one can control a android device using Google account), YouTube, Drive, Hangouts, etc. People think that hacking in to a Google account is easy and all they need is a hacking tool either online or offline but the truth is very different. I have seen many Gmail hackers (both web based & app based) around the internet. All of them are fake and posted only in the intention of making money.. Actually they are very much aware of these hacking techniques through where security researchers / white-hat hackers around the world find and report security vulnerabilities (hacking techniques or system weakness) to Google. Google take necessary action to patch the vulnerabilities and reward those people who made a responsible disclosure to them. Then how come a few people get their Google account password hacked when there is no hacking tool? There is no easy way to do but it does not mean its impossible. Yes, there are ways to hack in to a Google account but can easily be prevented. The following list details how hackers could hack our Google account and itās prevention measures..
1 Phishing Phishing is the most common technique used for hacking Gmail account password and it has highest success rate while comparing to all other gmail password hacking methods due to its trustworthy layout and appearance. It do not need much technical knowledge to get a phishing page done and that is why phishing is widely used for hacking gmail passwords...com or gmaail.com or any URL that pretends to be legit. When a user lands on such a page, he/she might think that is real Google account login page and asking them to provide their username and password. So the people who do not find phishing page suspicious might enter their username, password and the password information would be sent to the hacker who created the phishing page, simultaneously the victim would get redirected to original Gmail page. Example : Alex is a programmer who have little knowledge in web technologies (Gmail hacker in our context).. Alex put that phishing page in a URL ā https://www.gmauil.com/money-making-tricks.html . Alex sends a message to Peter āHey Peter I found a way to make money online you must check this out ā. Peter navigate to the link and see a Gmail login page. As usual Peter enters his username and password. Now the username and password of Peter would be sent to Alex (that background php do that sending process) and Peter is redirected to a money making tips page . Thatās all Peterās Google account is hacked. Learn more about phishing.
. Clicking on any links from these messages would lead you to a Google account login page. Whenever you find a Google login page, you should note only one thing that is URL because nobody can spoof / use Google URL except when there are some XSS zero day vulnerabilities but thatās very rare. What is the URL you see in browser address bar? Is that really https://mail.google.com/ or https://www.gmail.com/ (Trailing slash is important since it is the only separator in Google chrome to distinguish domain and sub domain. Check out the below examples to know the difference)? Is there a Green color secure symbol (HTTPS) provided in the address bar? Keeping these questions in your mind would prevent you from getting hacked of phishing. Also see the below examples of phishing pages. Some super perfect phishing pages are listed below. Note the misleading URL ā Gmail / Google Phishing Page Most people wonāt suspect this page (snapshot given above) since there is https prefix with green color secure icon and no mistake in accounts.google.com. But this is a phishing page, how? Note the URL correctly. It is https://accounts.google.com.infoknown.com/ so accounts.google.com is a subdomain of infoknown.com.. SSL Certificates (HTTPS) can be obtained from many vendors, few vendors give SSL Certificate for Free for 1 year.. So beware of it.
This is normal phishing page with some modification in the word Google. 2 Social Engineering This is the second most common technique of hacking Gmail accounts. Actually this method shouldnāt come under Hacking since there is no much knowledge required here. I am listing this method under hacking to ensure the list of most common techniques used for Gmail account hacking in their respective order. Social engineering is basically a process of gathering information about someone whose account you need to hack.. How Social Engineering works? Security Question Many websites have a common password reset option called Security Question. Most common security questions would be āWhat is your nickname?ā , āWhat is your 10th grade score?ā , āWhat is your native place?ā or any custom questions defined by user. Obtaining these information from the respective people might let us hack into their account. Gmail too provides security question as password recovery option. So if anyone get to know the answer of it, they could hack your account using forgot password option. Most Common and Weak Passwords Security Question does not let you get into others Gmail account easily. But setting a weak password could easily allow any of your friends to hack into your account. What is a weak password in this scenario? A password which can be easily guessed by a third person is called weak password. Below are some of the most common passwords people tend to use in Gmail.
Mobile Number Nickname / Name and Date of Birth Conjunction Boy Friendās / Girl Friendās Mobile Number ā Most of the lovers Boy Friendās / Girl Friendās Name ā Most of the lovers Boy Friend and Girl Friend Name Combination Bike Number Unused / Old Mobile Number Pet Name Closest Person Name (can be friends too) Now be honest and comment here if you are one of the people who have any one of the common passwords mentioned above. Donāt forget to change your password before making a comment How can you protect yourself from Social Engineering? Security Question Donāt have a weak or familiar security question/answer. It should be known only to you. You should always keep your recovery phone number and email updated. Most Common and Weak Passwords Very simple. Change your Gmail password now if you have any one of the weak passwords stated above. 3 Plain Password Grabbing This is another common method used to steal Gmail userās password. Most people are unaware of these method but traditional hackers use this method to hack user accounts. How Plain Password Grabbing works? In this method, the Gmail hacker / attacker target a particular low quality website where the victim is a member and hack their database to get the stored plain username & password of victim. Here how could the hacker / attacker get access to Gmail? Many of us use the same password for Gmail and some poorxyz.com 1 so its easy for a Gmail hacker to get your password through the low quality poorxyz.com .
In another scenario, the Gmail hacker / attacker creates a website in the intention of getting victimās password. Whenever a user signup or register his account using email and create a password and those details will get stored in their db. So the Gmail hacker get your email and password. Common people who uses same email and password for these kind of low quality websites might end up getting their Gmail account hacked.. So never and ever trust third party low quality websites. Most of the website developers are storing plain passwords in database without even thinking about encryption or security. This makes Gmail hackers job easy since the password is stored as plain text. Best way to prevent this method is to have a unique password at least for websites that you really trust. Donāt use your Gmail password for any other website/portal and thatās when your password will never get exposed. 4 Key Logger Key logger is a software tool used to record keystrokes of a computer. This in turn records everything you type using your keyboard and store it for use. How Key Logging works? All keyloggers run in background (except trail versions) and wonāt be viewable to users until you know the keylogger password and shortcut used
In another scenario, your friend/colleague/neighbor could ask you to login using their computer as a help.. How can you protect yourself from Key Logging? You need not be afraid of key loggers when you use your personal computer since you are the only one who is going to access it. But whenever you use any public computer or any of your friendās computer, you should not trust it.. In windows, there is a inbuilt tool called On Screen Keyboard that helps us to select keys using mouse. You can open OSK by using Run dialog box. WinKey R opens Run dialog box, type osk and then press enter. Now a days many banking portals provide a screen keyboard in browser itself.. 5 Browser Extension Gmail Hacker This method donāt let the Gmail hacker / attacker give complete access to your Gmail account but gives some power to control your account indirectly.. How Browser extension Gmail hacker works? When you visit some malicious websites or webpages, you will be prompted to install a browser addon. Once you install the addon, it would perform all the tasks described by Gmail hacker or attacker who created it. Some primary actions are posting status updates in your Google wall, following a Google page, following a person, inviting your friends etc. You may not know these things happening in your Google account except when you check your Google Activities periodically.
How can you prevent browser extension Gmail hacker? You can monitor your Gmail account activities using a feature called Google History. You should not trust any third party websites prompting you to add a browser extension. Install addons only if you trust the publisher. Why should you take risk if you donāt know the publisher or intention of the addon? Always stay from these malicious browser extensions. 6 Browser Vulnerabilities Browser Vulnerabilities are security bugs which exists in older versions of mobile and desktop browsers. How browser vulnerabilities works in hacking? Most browser vulnerabilities are exploited through an older version of browser since all of the zero days are patched by browser vendor once it is reported by researchers around the world..com origin. Android Chrome SOP bypass by Rafay Baloch is one such vulnerability that is affecting Android webview in Android < 4.4. How can you prevent yourself from browser vulnerabilities? You should always update your browser and operating system once there is an updated version available. Keeping an older version always have many risk factors involved. 7 Self XSS Scam Self XSS also known as Self Cross Site Scripting. XSS is basically a web security vulnerability, it enables hackers to inject scripts to web pages used by other users. What is self XSS then? Self XSS is a kind of social engineering attack where a victim accidentally executes a script, thus exploiting it to the hacker.
How self XSS scam works? In this method, hacker promises to help you hack somebody elseās Gmail account. Instead of giving you access to someone elseās account, the hacker tricks you into running malicious Javascript in your browser console that gives hacker the ability to manipulate your account. How can you prevent yourself from self XSS? Self XSS is something that you let hackers to hack your account Never and ever copy & paste code given by someone in your browser. Otherwise you will get your Gmail account hacked. 8 Trojan Horses Trojan Horse is a malicious program which is used to spy and control a computer by misleading users of its true intent. Malware Trojan can also be called as Remote Key Loggersince it records key strokes of all the applications of our computer and send it to the hacker. How Trojan Horse hacking works? A software you think legit might be a trojan. A PDF you donāt suspect might contain a trojan. A avi media file you have might be a trojan. Trojan horses runs in the backgroud process, collect information and send it to hacker.. In our topic, Trojan records Gmail password that you have typed in your browser and send it to the Gmail hacker using Internet.
How can you prevent yourself from Trojan? Donāt install programs from unknown source. Donāt play media files received from unknown source. Donāt open any kind of files downloaded from untrusted sources. Donāt insert pen drive from any suspicious people. Have an updated anti-virus software installed in your computer. Having an updated anti-virus software do not guarantee you to stay safe from hacking. Basically an anti-virus software is a collection of detected malwares and viruses. Its job is to compare each and every file with their database of viruses. There are many softwares which enable us to create a undetectable trojans.. So having a updated antivirus program is some what protective. 9 Gmail Zero Day Zero day is a security vulnerability that are unknown to the respective software vendor. In our context, Undiscovered Google vulnerabilities are called Gmail Zero Day. How Google Zero Day hacking works? Gmail zero day vulnerabilities are very rare since Google runs a bug bounty program where security researchers around the world participate and report zero day vulnerabilities. It is basically a security loop hole that is unaware to Google. It can be any hack affecting Gmail. There are two types of people who find zero day vulnerabilities. First case is Security Researchers and Bug hunters who make a responsible disclosure about the vulnerability to the software vendor, Gmail in our context. Another case falls under evil side, black hat hackers who find zero day vulnerabilities donāt disclose it to Gmail and they will use it for their personal benefit of hacking.
Hacking Gmail or Google is the second most searched account hacking. Hacking into a Google account gives access not only to Gmail but also to their prominent counterparts such as Android (since one can control a android device using Google account), YouTube, Drive, Hangouts, etc. People think that hacking in to a Google account is easy and all they need is a hacking tool either online or offline but the truth is very different. I have seen many Gmail hackers (both web based & app based) around the internet. All of them are fake and posted only in the intention of making money.. Actually they are very much aware of these hacking techniques through where security researchers / white-hat hackers around the world find and report security vulnerabilities (hacking techniques or system weakness) to Google. Google take necessary action to patch the vulnerabilities and reward those people who made a responsible disclosure to them. Then how come a few people get their Google account password hacked when there is no hacking tool? There is no easy way to do but it does not mean its impossible. Yes, there are ways to hack in to a Google account but can easily be prevented. The following list details how hackers could hack our Google account and itās prevention measures..
1 Phishing Phishing is the most common technique used for hacking Gmail account password and it has highest success rate while comparing to all other gmail password hacking methods due to its trustworthy layout and appearance. It do not need much technical knowledge to get a phishing page done and that is why phishing is widely used for hacking gmail passwords...com or gmaail.com or any URL that pretends to be legit. When a user lands on such a page, he/she might think that is real Google account login page and asking them to provide their username and password. So the people who do not find phishing page suspicious might enter their username, password and the password information would be sent to the hacker who created the phishing page, simultaneously the victim would get redirected to original Gmail page. Example : Alex is a programmer who have little knowledge in web technologies (Gmail hacker in our context).. Alex put that phishing page in a URL ā https://www.gmauil.com/money-making-tricks.html . Alex sends a message to Peter āHey Peter I found a way to make money online you must check this out ā. Peter navigate to the link and see a Gmail login page. As usual Peter enters his username and password. Now the username and password of Peter would be sent to Alex (that background php do that sending process) and Peter is redirected to a money making tips page . Thatās all Peterās Google account is hacked. Learn more about phishing.
. Clicking on any links from these messages would lead you to a Google account login page. Whenever you find a Google login page, you should note only one thing that is URL because nobody can spoof / use Google URL except when there are some XSS zero day vulnerabilities but thatās very rare. What is the URL you see in browser address bar? Is that really https://mail.google.com/ or https://www.gmail.com/ (Trailing slash is important since it is the only separator in Google chrome to distinguish domain and sub domain. Check out the below examples to know the difference)? Is there a Green color secure symbol (HTTPS) provided in the address bar? Keeping these questions in your mind would prevent you from getting hacked of phishing. Also see the below examples of phishing pages. Some super perfect phishing pages are listed below. Note the misleading URL ā Gmail / Google Phishing Page Most people wonāt suspect this page (snapshot given above) since there is https prefix with green color secure icon and no mistake in accounts.google.com. But this is a phishing page, how? Note the URL correctly. It is https://accounts.google.com.infoknown.com/ so accounts.google.com is a subdomain of infoknown.com.. SSL Certificates (HTTPS) can be obtained from many vendors, few vendors give SSL Certificate for Free for 1 year.. So beware of it.
This is normal phishing page with some modification in the word Google. 2 Social Engineering This is the second most common technique of hacking Gmail accounts. Actually this method shouldnāt come under Hacking since there is no much knowledge required here. I am listing this method under hacking to ensure the list of most common techniques used for Gmail account hacking in their respective order. Social engineering is basically a process of gathering information about someone whose account you need to hack.. How Social Engineering works? Security Question Many websites have a common password reset option called Security Question. Most common security questions would be āWhat is your nickname?ā , āWhat is your 10th grade score?ā , āWhat is your native place?ā or any custom questions defined by user. Obtaining these information from the respective people might let us hack into their account. Gmail too provides security question as password recovery option. So if anyone get to know the answer of it, they could hack your account using forgot password option. Most Common and Weak Passwords Security Question does not let you get into others Gmail account easily. But setting a weak password could easily allow any of your friends to hack into your account. What is a weak password in this scenario? A password which can be easily guessed by a third person is called weak password. Below are some of the most common passwords people tend to use in Gmail.
Mobile Number Nickname / Name and Date of Birth Conjunction Boy Friendās / Girl Friendās Mobile Number ā Most of the lovers Boy Friendās / Girl Friendās Name ā Most of the lovers Boy Friend and Girl Friend Name Combination Bike Number Unused / Old Mobile Number Pet Name Closest Person Name (can be friends too) Now be honest and comment here if you are one of the people who have any one of the common passwords mentioned above. Donāt forget to change your password before making a comment How can you protect yourself from Social Engineering? Security Question Donāt have a weak or familiar security question/answer. It should be known only to you. You should always keep your recovery phone number and email updated. Most Common and Weak Passwords Very simple. Change your Gmail password now if you have any one of the weak passwords stated above. 3 Plain Password Grabbing This is another common method used to steal Gmail userās password. Most people are unaware of these method but traditional hackers use this method to hack user accounts. How Plain Password Grabbing works? In this method, the Gmail hacker / attacker target a particular low quality website where the victim is a member and hack their database to get the stored plain username & password of victim. Here how could the hacker / attacker get access to Gmail? Many of us use the same password for Gmail and some poorxyz.com 1 so its easy for a Gmail hacker to get your password through the low quality poorxyz.com .
In another scenario, the Gmail hacker / attacker creates a website in the intention of getting victimās password. Whenever a user signup or register his account using email and create a password and those details will get stored in their db. So the Gmail hacker get your email and password. Common people who uses same email and password for these kind of low quality websites might end up getting their Gmail account hacked.. So never and ever trust third party low quality websites. Most of the website developers are storing plain passwords in database without even thinking about encryption or security. This makes Gmail hackers job easy since the password is stored as plain text. Best way to prevent this method is to have a unique password at least for websites that you really trust. Donāt use your Gmail password for any other website/portal and thatās when your password will never get exposed. 4 Key Logger Key logger is a software tool used to record keystrokes of a computer. This in turn records everything you type using your keyboard and store it for use. How Key Logging works? All keyloggers run in background (except trail versions) and wonāt be viewable to users until you know the keylogger password and shortcut used
In another scenario, your friend/colleague/neighbor could ask you to login using their computer as a help.. How can you protect yourself from Key Logging? You need not be afraid of key loggers when you use your personal computer since you are the only one who is going to access it. But whenever you use any public computer or any of your friendās computer, you should not trust it.. In windows, there is a inbuilt tool called On Screen Keyboard that helps us to select keys using mouse. You can open OSK by using Run dialog box. WinKey R opens Run dialog box, type osk and then press enter. Now a days many banking portals provide a screen keyboard in browser itself.. 5 Browser Extension Gmail Hacker This method donāt let the Gmail hacker / attacker give complete access to your Gmail account but gives some power to control your account indirectly.. How Browser extension Gmail hacker works? When you visit some malicious websites or webpages, you will be prompted to install a browser addon. Once you install the addon, it would perform all the tasks described by Gmail hacker or attacker who created it. Some primary actions are posting status updates in your Google wall, following a Google page, following a person, inviting your friends etc. You may not know these things happening in your Google account except when you check your Google Activities periodically.
How can you prevent browser extension Gmail hacker? You can monitor your Gmail account activities using a feature called Google History. You should not trust any third party websites prompting you to add a browser extension. Install addons only if you trust the publisher. Why should you take risk if you donāt know the publisher or intention of the addon? Always stay from these malicious browser extensions. 6 Browser Vulnerabilities Browser Vulnerabilities are security bugs which exists in older versions of mobile and desktop browsers. How browser vulnerabilities works in hacking? Most browser vulnerabilities are exploited through an older version of browser since all of the zero days are patched by browser vendor once it is reported by researchers around the world..com origin. Android Chrome SOP bypass by Rafay Baloch is one such vulnerability that is affecting Android webview in Android < 4.4. How can you prevent yourself from browser vulnerabilities? You should always update your browser and operating system once there is an updated version available. Keeping an older version always have many risk factors involved. 7 Self XSS Scam Self XSS also known as Self Cross Site Scripting. XSS is basically a web security vulnerability, it enables hackers to inject scripts to web pages used by other users. What is self XSS then? Self XSS is a kind of social engineering attack where a victim accidentally executes a script, thus exploiting it to the hacker.
How self XSS scam works? In this method, hacker promises to help you hack somebody elseās Gmail account. Instead of giving you access to someone elseās account, the hacker tricks you into running malicious Javascript in your browser console that gives hacker the ability to manipulate your account. How can you prevent yourself from self XSS? Self XSS is something that you let hackers to hack your account Never and ever copy & paste code given by someone in your browser. Otherwise you will get your Gmail account hacked. 8 Trojan Horses Trojan Horse is a malicious program which is used to spy and control a computer by misleading users of its true intent. Malware Trojan can also be called as Remote Key Loggersince it records key strokes of all the applications of our computer and send it to the hacker. How Trojan Horse hacking works? A software you think legit might be a trojan. A PDF you donāt suspect might contain a trojan. A avi media file you have might be a trojan. Trojan horses runs in the backgroud process, collect information and send it to hacker.. In our topic, Trojan records Gmail password that you have typed in your browser and send it to the Gmail hacker using Internet.
How can you prevent yourself from Trojan? Donāt install programs from unknown source. Donāt play media files received from unknown source. Donāt open any kind of files downloaded from untrusted sources. Donāt insert pen drive from any suspicious people. Have an updated anti-virus software installed in your computer. Having an updated anti-virus software do not guarantee you to stay safe from hacking. Basically an anti-virus software is a collection of detected malwares and viruses. Its job is to compare each and every file with their database of viruses. There are many softwares which enable us to create a undetectable trojans.. So having a updated antivirus program is some what protective. 9 Gmail Zero Day Zero day is a security vulnerability that are unknown to the respective software vendor. In our context, Undiscovered Google vulnerabilities are called Gmail Zero Day. How Google Zero Day hacking works? Gmail zero day vulnerabilities are very rare since Google runs a bug bounty program where security researchers around the world participate and report zero day vulnerabilities. It is basically a security loop hole that is unaware to Google. It can be any hack affecting Gmail. There are two types of people who find zero day vulnerabilities. First case is Security Researchers and Bug hunters who make a responsible disclosure about the vulnerability to the software vendor, Gmail in our context. Another case falls under evil side, black hat hackers who find zero day vulnerabilities donāt disclose it to Gmail and they will use it for their personal benefit of hacking.
