Fake accounts on social media platforms are often used to commit fraud, as well as spread misinformation and fake news, which is why the recent discovery of a huge 'click farm' on Instagram is so concerning. For those unfamiliar with click farms, they are operations where low-wage workers, typically in developing countries without strict data regulations, are paid to click links and interact with users online. , either to earn revenue from advertising or to inflate a person's subscribers on a social network. . The vpnMentor research team, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Lucar, stumbled upon this new click farm after discovering a Command and Control (C&C) server containing data for tens of thousands of Instagram profiles, including names of username and passwords, proxy IP addresses, email addresses. logged into accounts, SMS verification codes and phone numbers used in the transaction. Since all of this data was stored on a single server, click farm operations were completely centralized and controlled by a single entity. This allowed anyone who worked on the farm to log into an account from anywhere in the world and start interacting with real Instagram users online.