Security expert Patrick Wardle told AP: “Adversaries came to the realization they don’t need to persist. If they could do a one-time pull and exfiltrate all your chat messages and your contact and your passwords, it’s almost game over anyways, right?”
Protecting your phone is important even if you don’t think you have anything to hide. It is essentially a huge folder of sensitive information that you carry around at almost all times. Hackers could be after your location data, contacts, passwords and photos and could even secretly record you.
That’s true even if you haven’t done anything risky, like clicked on a spammy link or email. These days, sophisticated attackers are increasingly using exploits which don’t need you to take any actions at all. Scarily, these “zero-click” hacks can load a virus on your phone invisibly and with no warning.
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