Today, smart phone is an extension of our lives and most people can never go long without checking on their phones. In fact, it is said that we have become a slave of the technology we developed but who are we kidding if we say that smart phones are not our most prized possessions. And in this digital era, technology cannot always be a boon. Technology has some flaws and its vulnerability can be extremely dangerous to us. When our life is displayed on social media for everyone to see, it becomes imperative that we pay close attention to our privacy. In this article, we will talk about the signs to look out for if we think our phone is hacked. So let us find out with these signs.
Check out the apps
Look out for apps that you do not remember installing and downloading. Often times such dubious apps can hack your phone and transfer your personal data to its server and cause a privacy breach. Also, before installing any new app, look out for reviews and always install apps from trusted sources, where the chances of malware apps are extremely low. These apps can often disguise itself in the form of flashlight and battery saver apps. It is often found that several flashlight and battery saver apps have been infected with malware and tries to scrape the owner’s financial data.
Checkout your call list
It is not always that a new app can be the potential malware or the problem. Some random calls on your number can also siphon your data and transfer your essential data to their servers. Calls offering a free holiday package or a lottery winning are likely scam artists trying to hack your data and record your voice to enable illegal scams.
Beware of links
Do you go around clicking every other advertisement on the web or have you accidently clicked on an unexpected pop up? You may have fallen for phishing scams that exhort your precious information by telling you that you have been gifted a random African princess’ inheritance. Beware of such scams for they may siphon your data.
Run a security scan
There are many security and antivirus apps present on the play store that can help you to safeguard your phone against such unforeseen advances. Spyware apps are a category of apps that solely exists for the purpose of monitoring the victim’s activities and do not have any financial gain as an outcome. On the other hand, malware apps are usually designed to siphon the financial information of the victim. They usually are designed to evade detection but some of these security apps have an upper hand as they have access to your phones quite well and can evade such malicious apps and tell you through scanning if you have one on your system.
These signs could reveal to us that whether our phone is been hacked or not. Knowing this we can stay alert, and reduce or avoid the outcome of hacking.
