Juice Jacking: Mobile installed on charging, bank account becomes empty! Such money is being withdrawn from the account, do not make this mistake

New Delhi: Charging a mobile phone in a public place can be extremely dangerous. Lakhs of rupees have been withdrawn from the bank accounts of many people. Actually these days thugs are cheating people of lakhs of rupees through juice jacking attack. Juice jacking is actually a kind of cyber or virus attack. In this, criminals steal personal data by installing malware (juice jacking) in any mobile, laptop, tablet or other device through the USB charging port used in public places such as airport, railway station, bus stand or mall. According to media reports, recently the CEO of a company in Hyderabad was charging his mobile through a USB port at a public place. After this he came to know that 16 lakh rupees have been withdrawn from his account. In Delhi too, in the past, a woman had complained that the phone was charging at the USB charging station present at the Delhi airport. During this, a message came to him that one lakh 20 thousand rupees have been withdrawn from his account. Now the government has also cautioned the people about this. Let us tell you how dangerous it is and what is the way to prevent it.

Phone gets charged but account is empty
Juice jacking simply means when you use the charging port to charge your mobile in public places. Cyber ​​attacks happen on mobile phones through this port. This work can be done in two ways either with power cable or data cable. Both the cables can break as a disaster on the mobile phone, if the phone is used for charging in a public place. People often do this that in cafes, railway stations, metro, bus stands or airports where the charging port appears empty, they put the mobile in charge. Your mobile is charged, but it may have to pay a heavy price. In the meantime, there may be a cyber attack of malware on your phone. This type of cyber crime starts with USB charging ports that are installed in public places. Such online crime is called juice jacking.

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phone is hacked like this
Cybercriminals hack into mobile charging stations in public places. As soon as you put your phone there for charging, then any Crawler program or malware will be installed in your phone through your phone’s USB port. This will give access to the phone to the hacker.

Ministry of Home Affairs has issued advisory
These cases came to a halt in the lockdown last year, but now as the movement has started increasing in bus stands, railway stations, airports and other public places, this method of cybercrime has started spreading. Earlier many banks including SBI had alerted the people about this. Now the Cyber ​​Unit of the Ministry of Home Affairs has issued an advisory in this regard.

22% of charging stations in public places are not safe
When ‘Alert Indians’, an organization doing research on cyber security, in February 2021, in research in Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad, found that 22% of charging stations installed in public places were not secure or were already in the grip of hackers. Another study found that 33% of free WiFi connections available in public places were such that they were pushing malware/viruses into the phone or laptop, through which hackers could access the phone and laptop.

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protect like this
– Avoid charging mobile phones at charging stations available in public places
– Carry phone charger, battery bank with you, so that there is no need for a charging station
– If necessary, charge the phone by plugging your charger into a wall-mounted electrical socket
– There is an option under USB debugging in the phone’s settings – Install over ADB, always keep it off
– Install an anti virus solution that can prevent data theft