Nowadays privacy is the most valuable thing which is difficult to find for an individual in the current world. It is unknown that now also hackers can able to monitor you through the selfie cam or webcam.
Then
- How do I know my smartphone gets hacked or not?
- How do I protect myself from hackers?
- What are the steps you have to take to keep the hacker away from you?
- What does the hacker do with our data?
Before answering those questions let me tell
How the smartphone gets Hacked and what are the possible ways to hack a device?
Ok, At first there is no possibility to hack a device without touching in the current technology world but this is possible when the user gives their own access to the snoopers, this is shocking right !!!
yes, sad but true without your permission no one can enter into your smartphone. But psychologically no one will like to allow a strange person to access a personal smartphone but these are actually done by a mistake, then how the permission is given by the users? definitely, it is by mistake.
Basically, this type of accessing other smartphones without knowing them is done by a set of codes called malware.
Malware is nothing but a line of code that actually gives access for your smartphone to the Hackers without asking permission from you.
How the malware is injected in our smartphone?
The possible ways of injecting malware into your smartphone are
- First, by downloading third party or unknown applications from the browser or play store. The third-party applications may contain some malware program when you try to download the application malware is also gets downloaded to your smartphone.
- Second, by clicking unknown links in social media which are also created by Hackers and spread through social media websites. When the user or a person clicks the unknown link from the unknown person which leads to open the page which displays image or video but in the background, the malware gets injected into the smartphone.
- Third, Downloading cracked Softwares or free software from the unofficial site leads to injecting malware on your smartphone.
Once the malware gets injected into your device which gets the access to system OS platform and battery power the lines of code (malware)gets executed and gives access to the Hackers. This process or access can't able to saw by a user, because the whole process runs in a background.
How do I know my smartphone gets hacked or not?
There is some ways to know that your smartphone gets hacked or not
- your display gets filled with numbers and codes.
- your battery will drain quickly.
- you can notice unknown calls or messages that you have never dialed.
- your phone performance will get slow.
- your data plan automatically crosses the daily limit and the phone gets heated automatically due to the malware running in the background.
- you can able to find the applications which you've never installed before.
- you can see unknown popups while using the smartphone.
- you can also see the configurations which are changed from the before.
What are the steps to do after you know that your smartphone gets hacked?
- step 1- Uninstall all the unknown apps and run the mobile security software if you have on your smartphone.
- step 2 - intimate your contacts to ignore any suspicious messages or links receiving through your contact.
- step 3 - Try to recover your original settings and configurations and search for the instructions online to remove the malware from your operating system.
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