It’s no secret that any mobile phone can be wired just as the phone number can be replaced. IMSI catchers are very cheap and popular devices now that can do both. But there are also other ways to violate your privacy through the cellular network.
Here are three main wiring methods described below.
1. Spyware (or Scumware)
The software that you install on your mobile phone can record your phone calls, capture photos and videos not only when you talk or use the camera application, but also in standby mode.
Security: You must pay attention to installing new software and check whether it has access to camera and microphone or not and also Internet, phone calls, SMS etc. Also always check the manufacturing company whether it is reliable or not.
Spyware could also be installed on your device without your disclosure. Such apps are prohibited on Google Play. So usually they are apps that can only be installed from an APK file, they transmit your location, calls or messages to a person who wants to connect you. In the list of applications they usually look like fishing website addresses such as “Googel Services”, “Google Drlve” with the same app icon as the similar real applications. Even the package names are usually very similar to any popular application, so it may be difficult to find them. It could be a co-worker, a relative or a phone support technician who could install such an app on a user’s mobile phone.
Eagle Security allows you to get the complete list of applications on your device. You can check the permissions they have requested and find out which apps are requesting the most permissions allowing them to spy on you.
Eagle Security also provides features to disable the camera and/or microphone on your phone to prevent any spyware from using them when you want to make sure your phone isn’t listening or watching you.
This app uses the Device Administrator permission.
2. Replacement of the base station
This method has become very popular lately because IMSI catchers become very cheap and easy to buy. The wiring kit can be placed next to you not far from 500 meters and all mobile phones within range connect to the mock station due to its strong signal. IMSI catchers are often used with a jamming station to suppress all cell towers and have all nearby phones register in the network via the IMSI catcher.
Such kits may not be larger than a briefcase and can easily be used without warning.
You cannot know that the base station has been replaced because the new station transmits all data to the real one and calls work normally. Everyone can buy this compex at an affordable price.
Protection: Monitor all stations your mobile connects to. Eagle Security checks a station’s signature, mostly wiretap complexes have poor signatures. And it also tracks station locations. If a station appears in different places or appears in a new place near a station placed in the same place before, it would be marked as suspicious and all other users would be notified if they connect to this station.
Connecting to a suspicious base station does not mean that someone is eavesdropping on you for sure. But it is highly recommended not to use the phone when it is connected to an untrusted base station.
3. The third method
Having contacts in security agencies, you can get an official allowance for wiring a mobile phone. In many countries it is sufficient to give a person witness status in any court case. The person won’t even know because such interception is formally legal.
Security: Encryption of voice and messages. You can use secure calling and messaging software from independent developers like Telegram.
Eagle Security helps our users protect themselves from the first and second methods described above in a highly efficient way.
With Eagle security you can monitor and scan the cellular network around you and control the access of applications on your device to your hardware.
