Hackers hijack smartphone to ‘steal’ Rs two lakh from owner’s bank account

The mail asked to furnish his banking details to strengthen his security system but never asked for the secured pin, making it appear genuine.

“Our investigation has revealed that the hacker was keeping a track of victim for long and got banking details through a phishing mail. Now to make a final attack, the cyber crook sent an SMS to the victim and as he opened it, a backdoor malware got downloaded on his phone giving the hacker a complete access to the,” said cyber security expert Rakshit Tandon, who is also working with police officials in several states to crack various cyber crime cases.

Experts claim that the hacker is very sharp as he kept waiting for user to sleep so that he could start transactions without it coming to his notice.

“Crook was monitoring each and every movement of the victim. As soon as he noticed that the phone is not active he started making bank transactions. The Hacker forcefully turned the phone on silent and started generating one time passwords (OTPs) from the bank. For the full article click here 

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