There
has been a ruckus about the spying of 1,400 journalists and activists from
around the world including India through WhatsApp. WhatsApp says that a company
called NSO of Israel has carried out this spy through its Pegasus software
(spyware).
WhatsApp
said in a statement that it was spied due to a deficiency in the calling
feature of the WhatsApp app.
So now the question is, how
do the spying apps reach your phone and what are the ways to avoid them?
Pegasus is a spyware that can
secretly spy any device.
Spyware like Pegasus is
present in the users' phone without their knowledge and easily passes the
confidential information in the phone to the hackers. Detecting whether your
phone has spyware is a very difficult task. If you look at the WhatsApp case,
no one was aware that they are being spied on.
He came to know about this
when WhatsApp himself told it.
Typically a device installs
spyware or malware or spy software/apps via a link.
Many times these apps come
through a third-party app.
Let us know that whenever you
install an app in the phone, it asks the users to click on the Agri button to
give the license. These apps are not installed
when Agree is not clicked.
With the click on Agree,
these apps give you access to many apps like camera, microphone, message
Only then, spyware reaches
your phone through these third-party apps. In addition, spyware software
accesses your phone through gaming and porn sites. Be careful if your phone is
crashing repeatedly or an app is hanging or crashing repeatedly. Apart from this, if you see a folder in your
phone that you do not know about, then you also need to be careful. If you feel
that there is a suspicious app in your phone that you have not installed, first
close the Internet connection of the phone and after clearing the
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