As a reference to my previous post Cookie Stealing: How to hack an Email Account in which I mentioned all the basics of Cookie stealing, now I am back with this article on how to hack a Gmail account in which I am going to explain the step-by-step procedure to hack a Gmail account. As I have said in earlier article, Cookie stealing is pretty handy method which every hacker must know.
How to hack a Gmail account: -
If you haven’t read my previous article, please refer it before moving further.
Let’s start with the hack. Gmail usually stores the session authentication information in cookie named “GX”. This cookie is used by Gmail to verify and authenticate the user. Thus, the user will be given access to Gmail account depending on the cookie he has. So, if you have access to victim account’s cookie and if you inject this cookie in your browser, Gmail will give you the access to victim account. Thus, you will be able to hack Gmail account.
Steps to hack Gmail account: -
1. Physical access to victim computer
2. Victim computer in same network (LAN) as the hacker.
A hacker can use Wireshark or HTTP Debugger Pro to sniff and steal cookies when victim is in hacker’s network. I am going to cover the first method here and will post on Wireshark in my coming articles. So, now, we will assume that hacker has physical access to victim computer. Let’s start.
· Once you have access to victim computer, install Cookie Editor firefox addon on victim computer.
· Now, go to Tools -> Cookie Editor to see something like: -
· Enter “.google.com” (without quotes) in text box and hit on “Filter/Refresh”.
· Now, look for cookie with name “GX”. Select that cookie and hit on “Edit”.
· You will get this popup box showing all information about that cookie. Now, simply copy all the text in box adjacent to “Content”. That’s it guys, we have successfully obtained victim cookie and now, need to inject this cookie in our browser.
· Now, go to your browser and install Cookie Editor addon. If you have logged in to your Gmail account, logout of your Gmail account. Go to Tools -> Cookie Editor. Enter “.google.com” in text box and hit on “Filter/Refresh”. You won’t find any GX cookie. Hit on “Add” to get a new popup box like this: -
Enter the information as:
Name: GX
Content: The victim cookie you’ve got in step 5.
Domain: .mail.google.com
Path: /mail
Select “Any type of Connection”. Hit on Save.
Name: GX
Content: The victim cookie you’ve got in step 5.
Domain: .mail.google.com
Path: /mail
Select “Any type of Connection”. Hit on Save.
· Now, go to gmail.com and you will find yourself logged in to victim’s Gmail account. Thus, you are able to hack a Gmail account using Cookie stealing.
Note: If you want to try this Cookie stealing hack on your own computer, use two different browsers like Firefox and Flock. Consider that Flock is victim’s browser and Firefox is hacker’s browser and simply copy-paste the cookie in Flock to Firefox. You will get the results. Refer to above steps for more help.
So friends, I hope now you are now able to hack a Gmail account using Cookie stealing. As I mentioned in my previous article, Cookie stealing has its own disadvantages. But, this can be pretty handy many times. I will write on how to hack Facebook account using Cookie stealing in my coming article. Till then, try out this method to hack Gmail account and if you encounter any problem, please share it with us in comments.
Enjoy Cookie stealing to hack Gmail account…
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