Nowadays, impostors do not try to create an invincible malware or virus to hack people’s devices. They make you fall into their traps by luring you to install a virus yourself. In this way they can easily steal your money and data.
Mobile phones of android companies are getting hacked for quite a few years. The iPhone 13 model of the Apple Inc. also falls into this category. Although it has high performance and incredible features and latest technological advancements are included in it, it has fallen victim to the hackers.
For most of the cases, the mobile devices get hacked because of the fault of the users, rather than the mobile phone itself. Numerous ways are there to hack a cell phone and even iPhone 13, that is surely mighty, can get hacked. See below the various methods of how the device can be hacked and of course how you can protect it from impostors.
How can one hack IPhone 13?
Numerous ways are there to hack your iPhone. A hacker do not try to hack through the OS when they attempt to hack into the device. It is surely very challenging. Instead, they try to trap the phone’s user. Some of the ways to do that are provided below.
Through Wi-Fi:
Sketchy public networks of Wi-Fi are the simplest way for an impostor to hack through your device. You can find them anywhere from hotels, cafes, airports and restaurants. These republic networks pose to you a bunch of simple questions for attempting to hack your information when you come across them. They can easily track your phone and each information that it contains once you are connected to those networks. So you are advised not to connect with these unknown Wi-Fi networks for the sake of your phone’s safety.
Through applications:
The app store of the iPhone is usually much safe for malicious applications which do not try to steal money from you actively and disguise themselves as an app that is functional. They can try to ask you a lot of permissions that are unnecessary and hack your data.
Through URLs:
There is a well known method of hacking which is called phishing. In this method to hack your iPhone, the imposter provides you with a link that boasts of big promises. They can be about gaining ridiculous amount of discounts, getting a lottery or a free car. All these texts directly ask you to tap on a link for registering. They hack your information once you do so and use that to log into your account.
You can understand that these hackers are literally a pro in these things and hence you should never download suspicious applications and ignore messages that tell you to click on certain links. It takes a few seconds to hack every important data from your phone which can cost you a lot.
Recently, a few months back in the previous year, there was an annual competition of hacking for professional hackers to showcase their talent to manipulate and find vulnerabilities and hack through the security of large technological companies like Apple, Google etc. One of the participating companies was able to do that on live stage just within 15 seconds!