Hacker is a person who has great knowledge and skill about information and technology, and they utilize their technical knowledge to attain a goal or an objective through a computerized system either by ethical or non-ethical sources. Hacking is known as the act of viewing or using someone’s personal information by unethically entering their account or computer devices. Let’s know how someone can hack your mobile phone through Wi-Fi.
These privacy concerns around smartphones are explained. The fact is that smartphones do have and collect all your personal information and every dynamic of your life which can be a threat for you as it can leak your personal information and other private things to hackers. Although, there are many hacking methods the most common one is using a Wi-Fi network for hacking.
Yes, hackers can easily have access to your mobile phone either Android or IOS by using Wi-Fi. More common wi-fi hacks are through Man in the middle approach (i.e., DNS Hijacking; to penetrate wi-fi networks). It is done by involvement in the conversation taking place between a user’s device and the Wi-Fi network to steal their usernames, passwords, emails, and other private data. The article below will help you find out and make aware of different circumstances in which a phone gets hacked and then how to secure yourself from these unethical cyber traits through your Wi-Fi network.
How can someone hack into my phone through Wi-Fi?
As discussed earlier, hackers use the Man in the middle (MITM) technique to hack your phone when you are connected to a Wi-fi network. If you are using a cable, DSL, or any fibre-optic network then you would be having a router that airs the signals. The router helps your devices either a phone or a PC to get connected through your Wi-Fi. Now, the hacker uses this MITM technique to hack your device:
- Your device firsts connect to a Wi-Fi router
- MAC address is provided, which helps recognize your device.
- Each device connected to a local network has a unique MAC address
- Hackers first target a local Wi-Fi router and then attack the MAC address of the router
- Now with access to the MAC address of the device, he changes the device MAC address and makes it the same as the router’s MAC address.
- Each device now connected to the local Wi-fi network gets accessible for the hacker to access.
After this process is done, hackers now can easily read all incoming and outgoing network requests by using different data collection methods. This can be dangerous as if you are typing your username and password on a certain website or more dangerously inputs your credit card number, all data is stored by the hacker. Moreover, every website you visited is being judged by the hacker. You unfortunately are going through a data breach and not even a single text message is secured for you. Note that either public or home Wi-Fi, your device can be hacked easily. You may be cautious when connecting to a new Wi-Fi network as hackers leave behind doubtful Wi-Fi networks easily accessible to hack into the device and easily obtain information.
There are a few tricks to recognize whether your router is hacked or not:
Your Username and Password Turn Invalid:
Passwords that are right but not working is a suspicious act. When it is on your router, then it is no more suspicious. If your Wi-Fi network password or other login credentials for the router is not working, it can be a clear indication that hackers have entered your router and changed the settings that are not allowing you to log in.
Unidentified Device having access to your Wi-Fi network:
If you can check your router’s dashboard, you must look at the IP addresses connected to your network. If you are noticing an IP address that is not from your country, it is one of the indications that hackers have got access to it.
- Firstly, open the browser
- Enter the Ip address for your router in the search bar.
- Enter the username and password to have access to your router’s dashboard (Available at the back of your router).
- After being logged in, click on “Connected devices”
- Have a look at devices connected to your network.
- Ban the MAC address of any unfamiliar device you see connected
You must take quick action as soon as you see another new device or devices more than usual connected to your network as delay can put you in trouble.
Conclusion
I hope that you would have great information regarding your question in mind “Can someone hack into my phone through Wi-fi?” after reading this article. Comprehensive descriptions of hackers and their hacking techniques (The main focus was on Wi-fi hackers) were discussed above as the ways you could save yourself.
