Smartphone users beware! Hackers can steal your bank details just by your fingers’ movements
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We all make several movements on the screens while using our smartphones, either to type or command the phone for something. However, a research published in the
This shows how easy spying has become for malicious websites and apps.
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As per cyber experts at
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"Most smart phones, tablets, and other wearables are now equipped with a multitude of sensors, from the well-known GPS, camera and microphone to instruments such as the gyroscope, proximity, NFC, and rotation sensors and accelerometer," said
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"More worrying, on some browsers, we found that if you open a page on your phone or tablet which hosts one of these malicious code and then open, for example, your online banking account without closing the previous tab, then they can spy on every personal detail you enter," she added.
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"And worse still, in some cases, unless you close them down completely, they can even spy on you when your phone is locked."Also read: Apple has been secretly meeting with the FDA for years
With a boom in mobile gaming and health and fitness apps, sensors have become a necessity in today’s smartphones, and most of these, apart from camera and GPS, don’t even ask for users’ permissions before capturing the movements.
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