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Now, any smartphone can be hacked via YouTube

Теперь любой смартфон можно взломать с помощью YouTubeAttackers can obtain access to a mobile device of the victim and to do what you want with it.

Experts from the universities of Georgetown and Berkeley (USA) has created another method of unauthorized access to your mobile device. The method consists in applying the disguised voice commands that are embedded in the videos on YouTube.

In order for my method to work, the owner of the device you want to hack must include video hosting. The movie is not necessarily looking to break open the device.

You can include video on any device, located nearby, be it a laptop, tablet, TV, etc. Hidden in the video will be sent to the required mobile then the hackers get access to it.

We are talking about voice commands, which perceives the system, but the human ear doesn’t hear them. The user simply views the video has no idea that at this moment his gadget the cracked.

Using this method, attackers will be able to access the mobile device of the victim to load the malicious software or change the settings. To avoid hacking, a similar method must be configured in your device notifications when you receive voice commands.

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