Students who pay attention to Qi Jam should know that last month, Tencent began to crack down on WeChat "plug-ins".
On March 26, the official account of the WeChat Security Center issued an "Announcement on the Crackdown on the Use of Plug-ins on WeChat".
According to the announcement, according to the "WeChat Personal Account Use Specifications", WeChat clearly prohibits the use of all kinds of plug-ins.
If there is any use of plug-in software, or the sale of plug-in software in the circle of friends, the official will be treated according to the degree of violation.
Repeated violators will also be subject to increased penalties.
(Source: @微信安全中心, the same below)
As for the scope of the crackdown, it includes a variety of plug-in software that we see every day.
For example, the most common red envelope plug-ins, WeChat multi-opening, WeChat-themed skins, and so on.
Then there are various "marketing" artifacts, such as WeChat group control, which can add friends in batches through virtual positioning, batch greeting, etc.
Not only that, this kind of plug-in also has functions such as automatic batch sending to Moments, one-click likes, one-click comments, etc.
Then there is the WeChat bot, which can be used for WeChat group marketing to achieve functions such as regular group sending, automatic reply, and automatic chat.
All in all, if you use this kind of WeChat plug-in, it is best to pay more attention to avoid being caught.
It is worth mentioning that in addition to WeChat, Tencent has made another move on QQ!
Recently, the QQ Security Center also issued a document saying that from now on, it will severely crack down on "plug-in" behaviors and resolutely maintain a healthy network environment.
According to the official, the plug-in tool not only destroys the ecological balance and normal operation of the QQ platform, but also provides convenient conditions for malicious marketing behavior, and there are multiple risks.
In this regard, once the QQ security team discovers violations involving the sale and use of QQ plug-ins, it will be dealt with according to the severity.
(Source: @QQ Security Center, the same below)
Like WeChat, the official said that QQ also contains two forms of plug-ins.
First of all, it is a variety of QQ multi-opening, QQ tagging, QQ personalization, Android emulator, flashing plug-in, etc.
The other is also a "marketing artifact" plug-in tool.
This kind of plug-in can usually be used in batches to automatically register accounts, add friends, send messages and other functions.
Of course, there are also various QQ bots to achieve control functions such as timed group messaging, automatic reply, and automatic chat.
It is conceivable that this kind of plug-in has caused harassment to normal users and also affected the ecological environment of QQ.
What's more, this kind of plug-in is under the title of meeting the personalized needs of users, and in fact, it generally carries Trojan viruses.
Based on this, in the process of using plug-ins, criminals are likely to secretly collect user privacy information, posing a threat to account security.
In addition, without the user's knowledge, it may be used by criminals to harass and defraud others, and promote illegal crimes.
In the past two years, there have been too many news stories about accidents because of plug-ins.
For example, in a case in 2022, the police successfully arrested a number raising gang that provided technical services for the black industry chain of number theft, and obtained millions of QQ accounts involved in the case.
Among them, there is a suspect who has been engaged in the development and operation of QQ plug-in drainage software for many years, providing technical support for the black market of account theft.
According to the QQ security team, from 2023 to the present, the government has cooperated with relevant departments to crack down on a total of 16 cases of plug-in black industry, and arrested more than 40 suspects.
All in all, there are still users who are using WeChat, QQ plug-in software, and those who are engaged in this business, it is best to stop in time to avoid unnecessary trouble.
In this regard, do you support Tencent's approach this time?
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