Instagram (app) Instagram is banned in the Russian Federation. It belongs to Meta Corporation, which is recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation.

Instagram is a service for posting photographic images.

Free app for sharing photos and videos with social network elements. The software helps you take photos and videos, apply processing filters to them, distribute them through the service and a number of other social networks^[1].

Instagram forms square-shaped photos - like instant photo cameras Polaroid, Kodak Instamatic and medium-format cameras 6 × 6.

The application is compatible with the following devices:

• iPhone,
• iPad
• iPod Touch on OS iOS 4.3 and higher.
• phones on Android 2.2 and above with support for OpenGL ES 2.

2022: Blocking subscribers and user subscriptions in Russia and Ukraine

Instagram will stop showing subscribers and user subscriptions in the Russian Federation and Ukraine. This became known on March 8, 2022.

To protect communities in Ukraine and Russia, we will hide information about people's subscribers, about those to whom they are subscribed, and people who are subscribed to each other in personal accounts located in these countries, the report said.

Restrictions are also affected MEDIA with the State-controlled media label. Publications of "stories" containing links to Russian state MEDIA, will be lowered in extradition, and also marked "so that people can know that they are leading to Russian state media sites."

Earlier, the director of the League of Safe Internet, a member of the Public Chamber (OP) of Russia, Ekaterina Mizulina, proposed blocking the Instagram social network in the country. Mizulina noted that inaccurate information and calls for illegal actions were actively distributed on Instagram. Therefore, she called for slowing down the social network in Russia during the military operation in Ukraine^[2].

2021: Delete 243 Russian accounts for misinformation about Western vaccines

Facebook has removed 65 Russian accounts from its social network of the same name, as well as 243 Russian accounts from Instagram. Information about this appeared on August 11, 2021.

According to Facebook, a network of accounts that distributed memes from Russia was deleted, on which people turned into chimpanzees after being vaccinated against COVID-19, trying to undermine confidence in popular Western-made vaccines. More details here.

2020

Integration with Pyrus Service Desk

Customers often contact companies right under their posts on social networks, including Instagram. But such comments are easy to miss in the flow of notifications about likes and difficult to structure. Now their processing can be ordered using Pyrus Service Desk: its developers in 2020 released an integration with Instagram, which can be configured in a few minutes. More details here.

Integration with the Pyrus Collaboration and Business Process Automation Service

In 2020, the collaboration and organization platform business processes Pyrus began to support integration with, Instagram which allows you to automatically turn customer comments under posts into requests in the system. More. here

Instagram will introduce new methods to combat fake accounts

Instagram developers are working to introduce new features to combat fake accounts and trolls in the application. By words^[3] of the researcher Alessandro Paluzzi who found new functions in the program users of social network with a large number of subscribers will need to provide the official identity document^[4] for confirmation of the personality^[5]

Users will be required to upload an image of their government identity card, provide their real name in the app, and upload their location data and provide selfie videos. The data provided by users will then be verified by real people.

As the researcher noted, identity verification will help protect the community and help make sure that the content that users see in the Instagram application is genuine and created from real accounts. For this procedure, you can use a passport, driver's license or any other document confirming the identity of the user.

Thus, Instagram will be able to identify and remove malicious accounts from its platform. Some users may be concerned about their security and privacy, but representatives of Facebook, which owns Instagram, promised that the provided ID will never be published on the platform. In addition, documents uploaded by users will be deleted within thirty days.

2019

Protection against phishing attacks

On October 8, 2019, it became known that the company Facebook added Instagram an additional security feature to protect against. phishing attacks From now on, having received a notification from Instagram, users will be able to check whether the company really sent it, or this is the decoy of phishers.

In order to verify the authenticity of the message, you need to go to the app settings and in the "Security" section open "Letters from Instagram," which stores all notifications received from Instagram in the last 14 days. The update has just started and will take some time.

The menu divides messages from Instagram into two categories - "security notifications" and "other." The emails in this section are safe, and users can safely click on the links contained in them. If a letter allegedly received from Instagram is not in this section, then it is fake, and attackers are trying to deceive a potential victim.

The security feature is more than desirable, as the number of phishing attacks is constantly growing, and the phishers themselves are becoming more inventive and have even learned to bypass two-factor authentication^[6].

Instagram Real World User Surveillance App

On July 23, 2019, it became known that the American developer Eric Barto (Erick Barto) created an application that allows Instagram subscribers to follow the movements of other social network users in the real world. The application, called Who's in Town ("Who is in the city?"), was released in two versions - for iOS and Android. More details here.

Vulnerability to reset account password

Reset Password or Reset Password is a feature that allows users to restore access to their account on the website if they have forgotten their password. On Instagram, users must confirm a secret six-digit code (which expires in 10 minutes) sent to the corresponding mobile phone number or email address to confirm their identity.

With a search attack, you can unlock any Instagram account using one of a million possible combinations, but Instagram includes a speed limit to prevent such attacks. Mutia found a way around the restriction by sending brutforce requests from different IP addresses and, using the race state, sending subsequent requests to process numerous login attempts.

In a real situation, the attacker needs 5000 IP addresses to hack into the account. At first glance, this is a difficult task, but easily feasible if you use cloud services such as Amazon or Google. The entire attack will cost about $150, the expert explained.

Mutia published a demonstration exploit for this vulnerability. For information about it, the company paid the researcher an amount of $30 000 as part of the reward program for found vulnerabilities^[7].

2016: Instagram integrated with "Classmates"

February 17, 2016 it became known about the integration of Instagram with the service "Classmates." OK users were able to post their photo work from Instagram Instagram accounts^[8]

Previously, the publication of Instagram shots was carried out on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr and Swarm pages, it was available to send through email.

author = Semyon Boyarsky, business development manager of the Odnoklassniki project The new option will increase the coverage of posts made on Instagram, thanks to the veral effect of distributing content in Odnoklassniki. In turn, the audience of our social network will have access to a new cluster of photo and video content.

On February 17, 2016, the Instagram application with integration in OK is available in the App Store.

2013

On November 21, 2013, Instagram Beta for Windows Phone 8 was released.