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If you’re not careful when using your smartphone, a hacker could get hold of it. Here’s How To Know If Your iPhone Has Been Hacked
But Apple calls its iOS mobile operating system “inherently safe”, the truth is that even iPhones can fall victim to hacking attacks that, especially through malware infection, can end up with a hacked iPhone in hand.
The methods of hacking an iPhone are the same as those used to attack Android smartphones: phishing emails with links or attachments that infect the device, man-in-the-middle attacks, often using the backdoor, or just good old infected application. Once a hacker “enters” a user’s iPhone, he can do almost anything he wants with it, and if it is good, it is very difficult for the phone owner to notice it in a short time: the symptoms are there, but if you are not looking for them, they are noticeable only after some time. Here are the most obvious of these symptoms that can help us understand if your iPhone has been hacked.
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Abnormal battery usage
In an affected iPhone, the hardware must handle two kinds of requests: user requests, which are visible, and requests sent remotely by a hacker (or caused by malware used to infect the smartphone), which are not visible. However, both have an effect on the battery. So, if you don’t normally use your iPhone too hard, but your battery lasts much less overnight, there might be something wrong. So, by going into the iPhone’s battery settings, we can see which apps or services are using the most power: if most of the power is being used up by background services, that’s not a good sign.
Abnormal usage of calling plan
Infected smartphones are often used to spread viruses to other devices. Usually by sending an SMS. Checking the outgoing message list is therefore something that should be done frequently. If we receive fees for unsent messages (or worse, if we have hundreds of free SMSes available but have already finished them), it means that our iPhone is sending infected messages without our knowledge. On the other hand, other viruses stealthily make calls to premium numbers or activate subscription services without our knowledge.
Unusual performance crashes
To do all of this, a hacker or virus uses not only energy, but also CPU power and RAM. And so the action of controlling our Apple smartphone has a negative impact on the performance of the device. Sometimes the impact is so great that it can be seen “with the naked eye”, other times the hacker is smarter and evades detection because of too much activity. However, it’s always better to go into the settings from time to time and check the usage time: not only to check for excessive use of hardware resources, but also to know which app or service is causing it.
