Security researchers have been quite active in the past few months on discovering and reporting bugs found on Facebook-owned Instagram. In fact, a Chennai based techie won a bug bounty from Instagram twice for reporting bugs. Earlier this week, another white-hat hacker has disclosed a bug in the photo-sharing platform that could have remotely crashed Instagram app of any Android user.
If this exploit had reached the wrong hands, it would have given him/her the power to remotely crash any Instagram Android user by simply adding the victim to a common group where the ghost user is a member. Moreover, the researcher notes that no request had to be accepted by your Instagram followers if they are adding you to a group. Otherwise, accepting a group join request is mandatory.
