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Hackers Can Use Radio-waves to Control Your Smartphone From 16 Feet Away

Researchers from French government agency ANSSI have discovered a new hack that could allow hackers to make calls, send texts, browser a malware site, and do many more activities using your iOS or Android devices’ personal assistant Siri or Google Now. Hack could leverage a hacker to do whole lots of things on victim’s mobile phone without even speaking a word. Hack only requires: A headphone-connected iPhone or Android phone with headphones plugged in. A radio transmitter sends radio waves to silently trigger voice commands on any phone with a pair of microphone-enabled headphones.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2015/10/radio-wave-phone-hack.html

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