Speaking passport details out loud on a smartphone is just as dangerous as taking photographs of them and sending them to
The director of the department warned the Russians about this.ESET corporate business in Russia and the CIS Anton Ponomarev. According to Ponomarev, often users do not take pictures of their personal data, they close their location data, contact list and other sensitive information from applications. But most underestimate the risk of malware plugging into the microphone and eavesdropping on the victim.
Understand if your device has hackerapplications, you can use the settings of your smartphone. If you see that an application without an icon or with an unknown name has access to the microphone, this is a clear sign of spyware.
“Often users, for security reasonsdo not take pictures of their personal data, for example, passport numbers, bank cards or pin codes, but may in some situation say them out loud. Leakage of such information allows fraudsters in a matter of minutes to carry out illegal transactions with finances, as well as unauthorized actions to register in certain services on behalf of the victim, ”the expert explained and urged users to be more attentive to this moment.
Source: Gazeta.ru