Nowadays hacking is very easy you don't need special high-level tech knowledge. There are various ways to hack a mobile, computer and other electronic devices. 

The question is how you will know if your phone is hacked? In this blog, I will tell you 10 ways to check whether your phone is hacked or not and also there a few tips to how to resolve the problem.


How to check if your mobile phone is hacked

   



Here are 10 signs which indicate that your mobile phone is hacked

1. Your phone will become slow this is because malware that is on your phone is working in the background and consuming a lot of memory of your phone.

2. Phone getting hot and it is draining too quickly. If you analyze battery consumption of your in last month/week is very high. As the malware is continuously working in the background without your knowledge.

3. Unwanted apps are installed automatically or your app is functioning is proper ways it is showing some weird behaviour. 

4. Spike in data usage, in other words, internet data usage increased mysteriously. This is the sign which shows that malware that is present on your device is sending and receiving, updating or downloading something in the background.

5. Lots of Pop-up and unwanted ads. If your phone hacked you might start receiving a lot of popup and ads when you open an app or normally using your phone.

6. Apps are behaving very strange. You may notice that apps are closing and crashing or failed during loading. Apps are not running in the way they should run.

7.  Suspicious SMS, phone calls, download, purchase. If found an SMS which you didn't send, a phone call that is suspicious, apps which didn't download, then there is malware in your phone and your phone is hacked.

8. Google play protect is disabled but didn't disabled it by yourself It has been disabled unknowingly. It(Google Play Protect) is on by default, you can turn it off. Google Play protect scans all the app that is present on a phone to find any potential malware/virus that is harmful to you.

9. Your mobile phone is rooted but you didn't do it by yourself. Rooting a phone gives you a deeper level of access to your phone It requires some basic technical knowledge for a common man to perform rooting. Hacker gets more access to your phone after rooting.

10. Unwanted noise during phone calls or during normal usage. These are the sign that someone trying to hear your communication or recording your voice/call.


How to do if your phone is hacked 

    

1. Scan your phone with a good antivirus or anti-malware software/App like Norton, Avast etc. This will make sure that it is there are any malicious software app/malware is present on your phone it will let you know and also help you to remove these type of malware or malicious software.

2. Remove app that is suspicious. After scanning is if the software doesn't find anything that is malicious it is better to uninstall those apps that are suspicious is showing some unwanted behaviour. Innocent looking apps might create trouble for you because they might be suspicious.

3. Immediately change your passwords. Before hacker takes unwanted advantage of information that is present in your or on the internet It is best option to change your password and choose a strong password.
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4. Instruct your family member and friend to ignore the malicious and suspicious message or mail that is coming from you.

5. Last Option is to perform a factory reset. Use this only if there no other options are left because if you perform a factory reset you will lose all your data. So before performing factory reset take a backup of your data. 



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