What is juice jacking? New type of cyber attack
What is Juice Jacking? Have you ever thought that hacking can also happen through the charging port of your phone? These days, hackers are carrying out a new type of fraud, which is being called juice jacking. Hackers use your phone’s charging port to insert malware and steal phone data. As soon as you put your phone on charge, hackers insert malware i.e. virus into your phone. As long as your phone is fully charged, your phone’s data will be completely in the hands of hackers.
What is juice jacking?
Juice jacking has been called a new type of cyber attack, in which malware is inserted through the USB charging port of the smartphone. The Reserve Bank of India has also issued warnings regarding this several times. Hackers hack your phone’s data by inserting malware in your phone and your phone gets locked. You don’t even know what hackers have done to your phone?
How to avoid?
In view of the increasing cases of juice jacking, you have to use a blocker between your phone’s charger and the charging cable, which does not allow malware to be inserted into the phone. You can attach this USB blocker to your charging cable, due to which no data can be accessed from the phone. Apart from this, you can use anti virus in your phone, which alerts you before malware gets inserted in the phone.
FAQs
1. How does hacking happen by putting the phone on charge?
Ans. As soon as you put your phone for charging in a public place or unknown port, there is a possibility of juice jacking.
2. Can juice jacking be avoided?
Ans. Yes, you can avoid new hacking techniques like juice jacking. For this you will have to use port blocking device or anti-virus.
3. How to report juice jacking cyber fraud?
Ans. If you are a victim of any kind of fraud, you can call the national helpline number 1930 or report it to the nearest cyber police station.
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