Everything related to privacy and security on both our desktop and mobile computers is something that we must pay close attention to. Attacks can reach us through different channels that endanger our personal data, something that we can sometimes easily avoid.
It must be borne in mind that each time we work with a larger amount of personal data and sensitive from our devices. Hence, the attackers want to get hold of all this in one way or another, making us fall into traps and deceit. That is precisely one of the main objectives and tasks of the so-called Phishing attacks that you have surely heard on more than one occasion.
On many occasions the main way to send us these malicious elements it is through messages that come to our phone. In fact, over the last few years, campaigns of these characteristics have been detected that have reached millions of users. At this point, surely on more than one occasion you have wondered how they can get the attackers our phone numbers to send us these Phishing SMS.
This is precisely what we want to talk about below so that you can avoid, at least to a large extent, the arrival of these malicious elements to our terminal. At the same time, it must be taken into account that the aforementioned Phishing can reach us in the form of messages from banks, postal services, and all kinds of online stores. This is something that is carried out even if we are not waiting for any package or have not made any purchase on that site that is indicated in the SMS.
Avoid Phishing attacks by knowing their source
Obviously this circumstance should make us suspicious in most cases. But it is also true that on many other occasions these attackers manage to trick usHence these campaigns have been taking place for years. In addition, it is important to know the most common ways by which they get our mobile numbers. This way we can reduce the chances of receiving this type of malicious messages.
In short, if we know the original source of the problem, maybe we can avoid it and thus reduce the chances of receiving these SMS.
Install malicious apps on mobile: The most common way to get our mobile number is through malicious applications. We install these without realizing it in the terminal, and they automatically access our agenda to get hold of all these phones that we have saved. All this means that we should install apps on Android only from reliable sources to avoid problems.
Through social networks: Sometimes we publish our mobile phone on different social platforms or other websites, which is a mistake. Security breaches can also occur in some of these services, as happened at the time with Facebook. Even if we had the hidden number, the malicious actors got hold of it.
External vulnerabilities: Some cases have also been detected in which certain mobility shops or telephone operators have had security problems. This has resulted in leaks of the mobile numbers of their clients, in the face of which there is little we can do.
