A Hacker’s Four Favorite Ways to Get You

Ask Leo! July 23, 2025
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⚠️ A security professional shared the top four most successful hacks that compromise business accounts. I'll walk through them and show how they all apply to you and me as well. ⚠️ Protecting yourself from a hacker's scams Hackers trick you by pretending to be someone you trust, asking for your info, or getting into your computer. They might wear you down with 2FA pop-ups or even steal your phone number. Don’t share codes or passwords, don’t allow remote access, and always double-check unexpected requests. Updates, related links, and more discussion: https://askleo.com/182405 🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: https://go.askleo.com/ytsub ✅ Watch next ▶ I Got a Call from Microsoft and Allowed Them Access to My Computer. What Do I Do Now? ▶ https://youtu.be/B_Bxx5V-MnE Chapters 0:00 A Hacker’s Four Favorite Ways to Get You 0:55 Impersonation 1:55 Remote access 2:40 MFA/2FA Fatigue 3:30 SIM swap 4:10 How do you protect yourself? 4:50 Other techniques ❤️ My best articles: https://go.askleo.com/best ❤️ My Most Important Article: https://go.askleo.com/number1 More Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com to get your questions answered ☑️ https://newsletter.askleo.com to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter. ☑️ https://askleo.com/patron to help support Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com/all-the-different-ways-to-get-ask-leo/ for even more! #askleo #hacker #hack