Reality Exposed how Hackers get control of your phone

iOS Under Attack

New York – There is a bad news for Apple's iPhone customers. Hackers have succeeded to break the security of iPhone and they have found a way to install their desired hacking application in iPhone. When iPhone users unintentionally click on link, these applications download and install automatically in the iPhone. These applications look real and work just like other applications.

The Users do not have any doubt that these applications are spying on their phone or helping the hackers. Here we want to warn iPhone users for their convenience that these applications appear like Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and other application similar to these and function exactly as they do but actually, these software damage iPhone.

Masque attack

Simon Mills (Head of FireEye Global) disclosed this cleverness of hackers in his interview. In his interview, He named these hackers attack as "Masque attack". He said that in recent cases of Masque attack hackers used (URL Scheme Hijacking) technique. During installation of the applications, hijackers deceive users to replace applications with similar looking applications. Without the knowledge of the user, these applications install in their iPhone. But hackers have all the control over these fake applications from which they spy on the user activity.

Untrusted Applications

There is way through which users can detect these fake applications. These fake applications only download and install when user click on a link. However when these applications install on your phone they repeal already installed applications and take its place. User must have knowledge about the applications installed in their phone. If they realize that there is missing application from their phone, the first thing that should come in mind that they are under attack and a fake application has installed in their phone.