Suspected that your cellphone was hijacked? Want to know the characteristics of a bugged or hacked cellphone? Check here!
Every year, there are always many crime cases hacking that happened. Lastly, case hacking by Anonymous which befell several institutions and big figures in the United States and Europe in 2020.
Well, now Jaka is asking you. Are you sure you are safe from threats hacker? Who knows secretly your smartphone been bugged by hacker! How are you?
Calm down, Jaka will tell you 10 signs that your cellphone has been tapped or hacked. Here's the review!
Characteristics of a Tapped Smartphone
In addition to being used as a communication tool, on your smartphone, there must also be a lot of personal data stored, right? Imagine if all that information was known by others. So, let's recognize the signs if your smartphone is bugged!
1. Voice Calls Often Interrupted
Have you ever been on a call when you suddenly hear a loud noise or crackle?
If the voice is only heard by you, while the other person is normal, you must be suspicious if your call is tapped.
It's good if you reboot the system on your cellphone often and often consult your friends who understand this.
2. There are Unknown Apps
To tap a smartphone, usually hacker or related parties must install additional apps on the target smartphone. Uniquely, these hackers used to hide the application.
To outsmart, try to check the menu Settings - Apps or Application Manager, then check if there are foreign applications on your smartphone.
If it turns out that there is a suspicious application that you have never installed before, it could be malware or spy apps that steal your data.
3. The battery is easy to run out and hot
To send your data, the spy app installed by hacker have to keep going on background.
The impact of your smartphone must be easy to heat and the battery is so wasteful. This is of course dangerous for your own HP.
Try checking your battery usage. If there is a strange program that keeps running, it could be that your smartphone is bugged by someone.
4. Wasteful Quota
In addition to wasteful battery because there are foreign applications running on background, smartphones that are tapped are also usually wasteful of quota.
This is because the foreign application keep sending data out without your knowledge. In just seconds, your important data will automatically become theirs.
Therefore, it is very important for you not to open a risky site or website, because your data could be stolen from there.
5. Slow Smartphone
Do you often feel that your smartphone is slow when running applications or games, even though you feel that the applications are running normally?
If when you run light applications, your smartphone often feels sluggish, it could be there malware which works to transmit data to other people.
Can you imagine when you chat, it turns out that at the same time the installed spy application also works. So it's heavy.
6. Pop Up Ads Often Appear
Some applications to tap smartphones are not able to run automatically. Someone is using ads pop-up as trigger to activate it.
So, when the ad is clicked, the spy application will be active. Of course, this is very dangerous for your HP, gang!
Jaka's advice, avoid clicking various types of pop-up ads to avoid hackers who want to steal your data.
7. Location Sudden Active
One of the goals of people tapping smartphones is to find out the location. Therefore, if suddenly your smartphone's location settings are active (when they are usually turned off), there could be an application that forces location to be active.
It could also be, your cellphone is being tapped or hacked remotely. So, what to do?
You can restart your cellphone or reset the settings on your cellphone. You can also install the best antivirus application that will protect your cellphone.
8. WiFi Often Activates Alone
When you are in a public place and suddenly your WiFi connection is active, you have to be careful. Who knows you got tapped. Why Wi-Fi?
The problem is through a WiFi connection in public places, hacker can easily infect and transfer data to its target.
This is a serious concern for those of you who like to use public Wifi for economical reasons, you have to be even more careful, OK!
9. There is an Unknown Number on Recent Calls
Have you ever found unknown numbers in the contact list or in the column recent calls your?
Even though if you remember, you don't feel like you've ever called that number or received a call from that number.
Be careful, it could be the number of hackers who want to steal your data. Always be careful to save your number and not to share or list it carelessly.
10. Smartphone Suddenly Reboots Alone
The hallmark of the HP in the last hack is a smartphone that reboots without the will of the HP holder.
Indeed, there are cases where the cellphone suddenly turns off and reboots itself. Terrible isn't it?
Investigate a calibaration, this happened because the system on your cellphone had been infiltrated by hackers who intended to tap your cellphone. Like it or not, you have to take it to your own HP service center.
How? You already know now the characteristics of a bugged smartphone? Is one of the 8 signs of a bugged smartphone on your smartphone? If so, hurry up smartphone format you to factory settings to be safe.
