Malicious apps hack all mobile data and the hacked mobile act as a spy which can record audio and take picture and videos at any time without confirmation.
Introduction:
Recently mobile hacking through malicious applications / apps is the trickiest way for hackers to hack your data without your knowledge. In this they attract us to download their apps through lucrative offers and features. For ex, if you download this app, you will get 50% off in flight booking or shopping or food delivery etc. So in greediness you will download this app and hackers can easily hack your data with your permission and convert your mobile as a spying device. Let's discuss in detail how hackers do this. But before that first you should understand what is app and what is malicious application or malicious app.
App
“App is the abbreviation of application. This app/application is a computer program or a piece of software designed for a particular purpose that you can download onto a mobile phone or other mobile device.There are thousands of apps designed to run on today's smartphones and tablets.
Malicious App/Malicious Application:
Malicious app/application contain malware. These malware are nothing but some piece of malicious code attached to the application file which steal private information from mobile.
Mobile contain rich sources of data starting from contacts, emails, photos, call logs, message and many other private data.
These malicious applications hack all the private information from the mobile. It also make the hacked mobile to act as a spy which can record all the conversation and can take photos and videos.
Malicious Application seeks Permission to Access Your Mobile Data:
Apps needs your permission to access all your mobile data. Have you ever noticed when these apps ask you to grant permission? But you grant all permission without noticing that what permission it’s seeking?
While you choose to install any app, then a pop up message comes to accept certain things, then it will allow you to install. For ex. you are trying to install a home curry app. And it is asking you to accept its access to all the mobile data as shown in below figure .
Malicious App Access Mobile Data At Anytime Without Confirmation:
After installing these apps, have you ever checked settings -> Apps -> Permission?
You will be astonished that with all the access mentioned above, this permission allows the apps to use all this facilities at any time without your confirmation as shown in the above figure.
Microphone Permission: Allows the app to record audio with the microphone. This Permission allows the app to record audio at any time without your confirmation.
Camera Permission: Allows the app to take picture and video with the camera. This permission allows the app to use the camera at anytime without any confirmation.
Now the question arise that face book, what’s up due to video call and photo post may require camera and microphone access. But why online shopping, gaming, food delivery and all other apps require camera, microphone, account and all other data access?
How Hacked Mobile Act As Spy:
A report from WIRED explains how granting apps to access your microphone can compromise your privacy. Even when it’s in your pocket, your phone may be having silent conversations with the stores around you without your knowledge. IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (PDF) found that 234 Android applications incorporate a particular type of ultrasonic listening technology.
Note: Some ultrasonic apps are coming into markets which are using the high frequency audio beacons. These beacon sounds are inaudible to the human ear. It can be picked up by any nearby device that has a microphone and can then activate certain functions on that device. The technology has many more applications but the technology has been identified as a privacy risk. In March, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rapped the knuckles of 12 app developers who used ultrasound for cross-device tracking even when the apps weren’t turned on. This means that the apps could collect information about users without their awareness.
Conclusion:
"Access At Any Time Without Confirmation” is serious threat to data privacy which is applicable to all the apps. Giving permission to the apps to use camera and microphone at any time without confirmation convert your mobile to act as per the remote control in hacker’s hand. It can easily act as a spy on you and in your surrounding environment to record your conversion, location and capture photos also even the app is not turned on. So now the time arise that you should protect your data from malicious apps.
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