ALERT SUMMARY
The Associated Press reports that researchers have found a proven effective way to limit attacks on your phone activity from hackers.
The number of people whose phones get hacked each year is difficult to determine given their undetectable nature but a recent article by a global media consortium found leaked lists of people targeted by hackers including researchers, journalists, human rights activists and politicians. Finding ways to stop or slow attacks is increasingly important especially against our mobile devices. Your phone contains all the activities of your daily life and the people, the activities and places you go and see. Our mobile phones are always with us making them the top target for hackers. So just taking some easy, extra precautions can at least limit the information hackers can get in an attack.
-- Unlike trying to get you to click on a link to infect your device, “zero-click” attacks work without any user interaction --
It turns out one of the oldest computer remedies is proven effective against what’s called “zero-click” exploits. Unlike trying to get you to click on a link to infect your device, “zero-click” attacks work without any user interaction. These “zero-click” exploits take the information found in your mobile phone’s cache that stores your recent activity and running apps. For more information about it and what you can do, go to our solutions section below.
Next Steps - For additional details and Step-By Step Instructions on how to protect and respond to this Alert, follow the link below.
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