Can Android phones be hacked and remotely accessed?

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After watching this video I'm scared, I'm thinking my Redmi Note 3 could have been hacked as I gave it to a friend before taking it back the next day and I often see my front camera launching by itself, and phone waking up when it's lying idle without any notifications. Any way to prevent such hacks on phone?

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Don't install apps other than from the playstore. To take advantage the user must connive in the process. This is the easiest way to get hacked or remotely accessed. In other words buy the apps you need, don't pirate them.

Giving away physical access to your phone means you no longer control it. Your trust better be good

Now there are exceptions, sometimes apps in the playstore are bad but a quick glance of user app reviews should give you a hint or if there are no reviews then maybe dig a little more

What surprises me is up to now we've not had a major outbreak that causes widespread panic.

The closest we came to remote exploits was over a year ago but could be easily worked around by disabling MMS download. Can't remember the name of the particular vulnerability off hand.[DOUBLEPOST=1516374322][/DOUBLEPOST]What we see here is an 'ethical hacker' with the good minister in attendance but in real life anyone that tries to alert any org is likely to get an FIR filed against them (!)
 
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They used phishing to get the targets to install software

https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/how-avoid-phishing-attacks

Banks put out similar warnings to people too[DOUBLEPOST=1516506259]

[/DOUBLEPOST]https://www.symantec.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/open-source-apps-google-play

Another risk that can arise from open source projects is imitation. Criminals can use the open source code for an application and create an almost identical one but with some potentially malicious differences.

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my dad's lg g5 was lagging so I took a look into it. hundreds of shitty apps and launchers. I asked him where he got those. shitty sites and ads made him install.

I installed adguard plus unchecked "install apps from unknown sources" from developer options and not a single app since then
 
Is it dangerous to give someone your mobile wifi hotspot? A lot of friends keep asking me for this, and I feel they ask intentionally for some other other purpose. I know giving someone access to home computer WIFI alone is very dangerous as your pc can be hacked through the WIFI
 
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The question is, why does Google allow garbage apps like 'Teligram' through?

Then again, Google is know to half ass everything so no surprise...
 
Zaibatsu said:
Is it dangerous to give someone your mobile wifi hotspot? A lot of friends keep asking me for this, and I feel they ask intentionally for some other other purpose. I know giving someone access to home computer WIFI alone is very dangerous as your pc can be hacked through the WIFI
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You can see where they go if you control the line
 
Actually, Android is a very open operating system, which is both its strength and its weakness at the same time. As if it was needed one could hack an Android even from a distance.
 
With today's level of technology anything is possible, so a long-distance hack and telephone access is just a quesiton of knowledge and experience.
 
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