5 hacker techniques used to hack your smartphone

With the advent of smartphones and connected objects, the door has opened wide for hackers in our private lives. Our dear phones today contain all our data, whether banking, personal or even intimate. So it’s the big rat race to track and steal everything they keep warm. Do you think you are out of reach? Surprise ! No one is! A brief overview of the 5 most effective ways to penetrate your digital intimacy.

1-mSpy: the spy who spied on me

mSpy is a very simple application to install on a phone and we have already talked about it many times on Android-MT. According to the law, you must have the permission of the person who owns it. That’s the official version, but go figure if you forget to ask. This software is 100% undetectable and it allows track outgoing and incoming calls, read text messages, have access to photos but also to e-mails. It can also control applications and programs and track your position on a GPS. In short, mSpy is the perfect tool for the little budding spy…or jealous and suspicious husbands and wives. The solution to escape it? Use a lock method: PIN, fingerprint, etc. You have a doubt? Do you think that you have installed spyware on your device? Check that Play Protect is activated because mSpy cannot work if it watches the grain (in the Play Store app, go to your profile at the top right then PlayProtect).

2-Smart homes but big flaws

It is increasingly common to have connected objects in our homes that we control through our phones or tablets. Appliances, electricity, security systems, lighting can now be connected to the Internet and controlled through our smartphones. The problem is that it makes them vulnerable to hacker attacks who can then have plenty of time to unlock, for example, the security system and the front door. And there, your home will look much less smart. The solution here is to regularly update these devices and change the default passwords…

3-WiFi a bit too open

WiFi is also a great gateway into your life in two ways.

The first is when you turn your phone into a hotspot or leave your home WiFi open for everyone. criminals love connect to this kind of network to commit misdeeds. Thus, they are invisible and everything falls on your nose.

The second is when hackers clone fake free WiFi which use names known to all, such as Starbucks or McDonald’s. You connect to it with joy, thanking the generosity of Big Capital but, alas, you have just opened your smartphone to attacks. A malicious person can then take control of your device and spam all your contacts. The solution is to deny these connections or use a VPN.

Also read: CyberGhost VPN: €1.99 to protect yourself and evade censorship

4-In my place 3D

PlaceRaider is an application for mapping a place without the knowledge of its owner. In fact, it allows take hundreds of photos by hacking your smartphone camera, simultaneously recording the time, location and orientation of the latter. Once the number of images is sufficient, it allows reconstruct an environment with great precision, like a Google Maps, but in your living room. The software belongs to the US military and is of course not freely available. Do you think this is the future? Not really since the app is from 2012. In 10 years, it will have had time to make some progress, but also to “democratize”…

5-Hello mum, here is the hacker

For our readers who have children, you may have a baby monitor connected to your phone. Thus, the supervision of your toddler is improved. Except that may not be the case with yours. It is indeed possible, as has already happened, to make you hack the object which will then serve as a microphone. If it is also equipped with a camera, the pirate can record the images and control it.

Creepy, did you say creepy? It would be easy to understand that you had just thrown your smartphone in the trash and we thank you for going to the end of the article before.