How to know if your Mobile Phone hacked

Last updated on January 16th, 2023 at 07:04 am

Mobile phone is much more than our wallet or bank lockers because your phone keeps all type of valuable information, be it email, social media, messaging apps, online payments apps etc. You will shivers once you come to know that your mobile phone has been compromised or hacked. If your phone is hacked, the hacker gets access to all your these valuable information, photo gallery, audio captured, SMS contents and even hackers can monitors all your activity. But how will you know that your mobile phone is hacked ?

Here are some symptoms, by which you may guess about hacking.

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1. Need to charge phone battery frequently

If hackers have installed any malware or other spy app that will scan your phone continuously and consume more battery and phone battery will drain early and you have to recharge it more frequently.

2. Sluggish performance

If some apps on your phone crashes frequently. If some apps are running continuously despite your efforts to close them. If your phone crash or restart repeatedly. All these may be a sign of compromised phone.

3. High data usage

If you notice high data usage as compare to your regular data usage at the end of month. High data usage may be malware or spy apps running continuously in the background and sending information.

4. Suspicious calls and SMS

If you notice phone call record, you may find some numbers to which you never called or some SMS, which you had not sent.

5. Mysterious pop-ups

If your phone is infected by adware, you will notice flood of pop ups and in some of them, you are asked to give sensitive info or download more malware. By clicking some pop up, you may open malicious site

6. Mysterious pop-ups

When you try to install a new app on your device and it don’t ask for any permissions while installing the app, you phone may be compromised.

7. Weird activity in apps

If hacker has compromised your phone, he also have access to all app of your phone, be it email or social media so if you notice unusual activity in your apps such as resetting a password, sending emails, marking unread emails that you don’t remember reading, or signing up for new accounts whose verification emails land in your inbox.

If you have noticed anyone of above signs, first of all, change passwords immediately without updating apps and download a mobile security app like Avast.

Avast app not only scans for malware but also offers call blocker, firewall, VPN, and a feature to request a PIN every time certain apps are used – preventing malware from opening sensitive apps such as your online banking.