Hackers Can Determine Your PIN Code Using Your Phone's Camera
By downloading the wrong apps, you’re giving malicious hackers access to a wide variety of personal resources, but did you know, they can also extract your PIN Code with your phone’s camera? Security researchers at the University of Cambridge have determined that smartphone cameras can be used to extract private PIN Code from users.
Let’s say you’ve installed a malicious app that can take videos of you using your own smartphone camera. Here’s how they can infer your PIN Code:
By recording audio during PIN input, we can detect touch events.
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