When you follow phishing links to a login page and enter your details - for example to your bank account - your personal information has basically been stolen. Here, hackers often use official-looking communication, commonly shared via email or text messages, usually leading to a login page for a service which looks legitimate, but is in fact faked. Phishing is a method used by hackers where they impersonate a company or trusted individual in order to gain confidential data.
Once done, the link injects a user's device with virus/malware, giving the hacker the control over (a part or entire) data on the device. All these need from a user is a click/tap on the link. These malicious links or attachments are usually sent via e-mails, SMS or third-party chatting apps. Malicious links are another popular way to hack a smartphone, and can sometimes even be a precursor to leading a user to fake apps. A majority of these apps are found on third-party app stores, on social media, as pop-up ads on the internet, or sometimes, hackers target users via messages and links on websites. Hackers usually create fake apps imitating a popular app, and embed it with spyware or other malware. Google Play store and Apple App Store regularly take down hundreds of apps that may be fake or malicious. One of the most common hacking tool is a fake app. From malicious links to hijacking public Wi-Fi, there are some fairly easy to complex tools and techniques to hack into a user's smartphone: Hack level: Easy Fake apps However, a sophisticated spyware like Pegasus isn't the only way someone's personal device can be hacked into. The leaked list reportedly comprises surveillance targets for authoritarian governments around the world using the Pegasus spyware (developed by Israel's NSO Group), to hack into the smartphones of critics, journalists, activists, politicians and business executives.
Last weekend, an international consortium of media organisations published an investigation around a leaked list of 50,000 phone numbers from across the world, called the Pegasus Project.
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