How to fix hacked / infected phone

Smartphones can be considered as the indomitable object of many people. Not just a means of entertainment, serving work. The phone is sometimes also a place to store personal information, important data of each person. So what to do when the phone is hacked or infected with malware? Here are some issues to keep in mind.

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How do I know if my smartphone has been hacked or contains malicious code?

Essentially, signs that your phone has been hacked or is being tampered with by outside malicious factors include:

1. Fast battery drain even though not in use
2. The phone runs much slower.
3. Sometimes strange situations happen like apps suddenly display or unfamiliar calls or messages suddenly appear.

Note: Hacked phones often result in online accounts stored on the device being affected as well. So if you realize that your phone may have been hacked, you should immediately take measures to ensure control over all online accounts on the device such as Facebook, Gmail, and many other applications.

Cause the phone is hacked

Your phone can be hacked for a variety of reasons, not always under your control:

1. Clicking on unique links to online websites leads to the malware being downloaded and installed on the device.
2. Clicking on the fake links attached in a phishing email can also cause malware to be installed on the system.
3. Hack SIM card.
4. Hackers break into your phone via Bluetooth connection or public Wifi.

Regardless of the actual cause, hacked smartphones often lead to similar consequences: Malicious agents will try to steal data on the device for profit in some way, using the phone. Your tools perform various malicious behaviors.

How to fix hacked / infected Android phone

You can 'clean' your phone and identify malicious attack activities using the following measures:

1. First, enable Safe Mode on Android. Once enabled, remove all newly installed or unrecognized apps from your Android (try to find hidden apps as well). Uninstalling unrecognized or recently installed apps can help remove any potential malware that you have accidentally installed through these applications.

(Why is it necessary to turn on Android Safe Mode before deleting apps? In this mode, Android disables all third-party apps that are running on the system. This will essentially also stop apps from running. does not need to launch, which makes it easy to remove unwanted apps from your phone without any errors).

2. Install and launch antivirus software for Android. These apps will scan your phone for malicious files and apps and delete them permanently.

3. If you have rooted your Android phone, it means that areas of the system that are normally protected by security privileges have been opened, making the system more vulnerable to attack. To solve this, you will need to use one of the native apps like SuperSU unroot the device and go back to the original security state.

3. Reset Android lock screen and system PIN. This will ensure that if a hacker has access to your credentials and attacks your phone that way, they won't be able to access it again after you restart the device. You can also lock apps using the screen pinning feature to increase the level of security.

4. Reset account password. You may need to reset login information for important online accounts on the system such as Facebook, Gmail, Office365 . To ensure safety.

Lesley Montoya

Update 07 January 2021