Before heading to how your phone can be hacked in under 30 sec let’s have a short look on the types of hackers and types of attacks by the hackers.
Types of hackers:
When it comes to type of hackers people generally think that there are only three types of hackers WHITE BLACK AND GREY, but there are other types too. Below are the list of hackers other type of hackers:
1.Script kidie
2.Suicide hacker
3.The hacktivist
4.Red hat Hacker
5.Blue hat Hacker
6.Green hat Hacker
7.Social media Hacker
To get the detail about what this hackers do you can refer to this article:
https://bestiphider.com/types-of-hackers/
Cyber-attacks by hackers:
Cyber attacks are of many types. You should make sure that you are at your utmost safety. So let’s list the types of cyber attacks used by most of hackers:
1.Malware
2.Phising
3.Man-in-the-middle
4.Denial of service
5.Sql injection
6.Zero day attack
7. Drive by download
8. Credential reuse
9. Password
Wondering what are this attacks all about.
Get detailed information on this attacks and also the Major attacks of 21st century, in which big social media company twitter was also one of the victim. Click the link below:
https://www.testbytes.net/blog/types-of-cyber-attacks/
Now you know the types of hackers and types of attack performed by them, let’s dive into the topic. First thing a hacker does is that he will install a service app on your phone that is in size of kb and you aren’t aware that it’s there on your phone. The app doesn’t have the icon and it’s seems like it is pre-installed app.
The app gets all the permissions to access your phone’s resources and can steal your information. The stealed information gets to the hackers database. This apps get installed on your phone through downloads which you have made through non- secure site and also if you download the pirated version of movies, cracked versions of softwares.
The common type of method hackers do now a day is that through WhatsApp messages. Do you get message that share this message to get products at ₹1. They collect the information and also get the malware service installed on your phone.
So beware of this types of attacks by the hacker. Share this with your friends and make them aware of it.
Bothered about, is your phone effected by such attack then check Out this app( an initiative taken by government of India)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cdac.mkavach
This app will help you to remove all type of viruses on your phone.
Watch the video below to see full demonstration by saket modi :
Comment below if you have experienced any hack.
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