You could say you feel naked without your ever reliable and multi-function smartphone. But, you know that just by having your cellphone in the same room as you get dressed or share intimate moments with your partner, another person halfway around the world can literally see you naked?
In a scenario seemingly warns straight out of a James Bond movie, experts that smartphones infected with mobile malware have potent spying capabilities, including making it possible for an attacker to keep track of your place of residence, read and store your incoming and outgoing text messages and smyglyssna of your conversations even if you don't use the phone. The mobile malware are also enabled by the device's microphone and video camera, making it possible for an attacker to watch and record everything you say or do.
Researchers from George Mason University, Ryan Farley and Xinyuan Wang published an article that discusses a "modernized mic Dialer" which uses a moving bugnet that unscrupulous individuals could manipulate to smyglyssna other people's private conversations. This type of malicious code or bugbot can be used on smartphones or laptops and burrows itself deep into the drive, the operating system.
In fact, it is only recently that the mobile world was rocked by reports from smartphones used for sinister purposes. Several years ago, reports popped up on the monitoring of already software or mobile malware can be downloaded from the Internet to turn your phone into a virtual long-range espionage unit.
Experts say mobile malware is on the rise, an issue which is likely to get worse in the coming years as the number of smartphone users will further increase. It is estimated that 6 million of the 200 million mobile phones in the United States are infected. Access to 3 G and Wi-Fi connection and multi-gigabyte storage are other factors that contributed to increased by mobile malware infection.
According to security experts feel comfortable this mobile malware, ever more of husbands or wives who suspect their partners with a business or of anxious parents to party-loving teenagers, on all types of smartphones such as iPhone and Blackberry.
While the husbands and parents believe that the element provides the power, big brother, shady personalities use to blackmail a phone user to pay obscene amounts of money in exchange for the earlier silence about potentially harmful information.
From simple monitoring (trace your whereabouts using GPS) to advanced interception, your mobile phone becomes a portal to your inner Sanctum. It is as if the city's most notorious gossip carries Harry Potters invisible cloak, and then after you everywhere. And the worst part is that you are at all about what happens!
How do you know if your phone is infected with spyware?
Mobile malware work behind the scenes. You may not see your phone has already sent significant damning information to attackers. According to experts, however, there are some characters that tell-tale that you need to watch out for.
1. the phone's battery drains easily even if you don't use often.
2. you can't turn off the device or it stays lit up even if it is already supposed to be turned off.
3. the phone lights up even when there are no incoming text messages or calls. If you see the red light blinks twice, it might be an indication that the device is busy sending data to third parties.
4. you can hear the strange background noises or clicks when you use your phone.
What you can do to protect your smartphone from infection
1. be careful to download ringtones from the Internet that such files can carry mobile malware. The same applies when you open e-mail messages that contain suspicious attachments.
2. Security vendors Kaspersky, McAfee and Symantec offers protection against mobile malware tools.
3. Let not your phone unattended in public places.
4. use the tool free and downloadable mobile safety Lookout to block snoops, backing up your mobile data and/or wipe clean a stolen phone.
Leonor Albino writes for Schooley Mitchell Telecom consultants, North America's largest independent telecom consultant companies.
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