2024-04-30 15:08:13
The more convenience a smartphone provides, the more dangerous it can be for you. Because the banking service is present in the phone along with your personal information. A shocking revelation has come to light regarding leading smartphone brands Samsung, Xiaomi, Vivo and Oppo, in which a case of stealing banking and social media passwords recorded in the phone with the stroke of a keyboard has come to light.
How the fraud is being executed
When you login to banking payment or social media app from smartphone, you have to enter login ID and password. However, some special types of keyboards are being made, through which it can be detected what login ID and password you have entered. The keyboard stroke gets registered in this. In the latest report of Citizen Lab, many keyboard apps have been identified, in which security risks exist. It has also been claimed that these apps can leak keystrokes. What is more dangerous is that these keyboard apps have been used in smartphones like Samsung, Xiaomi.
These apps are stealing your passwords by listening to the sound of your keyboard, top brands included in the list!
Which keyboard apps are risky to use?
- samsung keyboard
- Baidu, iFlytek and Sogou keyboards of Xiaomi phones
- Vivo and Oppo’s Sogou IME keyboard
- Honor’s Baidu IME keyboard
According to the report, more such keyboard apps are used in China, which stores keyboard strokes in the server.
What to do?
- Always keep your keyboard app updated.
- When you use such keyboard apps, key stroke data is stored on the device.