{"id":6274,"date":"2018-12-05T12:02:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T12:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reveantivirus.com\/blog\/?p=6274"},"modified":"2019-08-19T07:02:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T07:02:11","slug":"juice-jacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reveantivirus.com\/blog\/en\/juice-jacking","title":{"rendered":"Juice Jacking &#8211; How it Happens &#038; Safety Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reveantivirus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/juice-jacking.jpeg\" alt=\"juice jacking\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.reveantivirus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/juice-jacking.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.reveantivirus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/juice-jacking-300x113.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.reveantivirus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/juice-jacking-768x288.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How often do you use public smartphone charging terminals to charge your mobile device, laptop, and other devices? Well, this might look quite convenient, but unknowing you are opening yourself to cyber attacks. Yes, that&#8217;s true! Public <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cell phone charging stations<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are a real bliss when you are running out of your phone\u2019s battery and forgot to bring your own charger. However, these charging ports are one of the new attacking vectors used by cyber criminals to steal sensitive user data and the attack method is known as Juice Jacking. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be it a coffee shop, an airport or a hotel lounge, one can find<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> free <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">phone charging station kiosk<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to p<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ower up their devices. But little do they know that these charging ports are used by hackers to fulfill their malicious motives. Let us understand how this happens:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A targeted smartphone charging terminals is used to inject malicious code\/malware into the smartphone or copy data from it. This happens with the help of data cable which is used both for charging and data streaming. The smartphone charging port is secretly connected to a computer system and once a phone is put on charging, the hacker gets access to the data present on the phone via the computer system. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photos, contacts, notes, browsing history, audio and video media, etc. everything becomes available to the infiltrator. Besides copying or stealing the data, hacker can also inject malware that can spy and steal your data and sends it to the host computer secretly. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>How to prevent juice jacking?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make it a habit to check your phone\u2019s battery an hour before you leave for anywhere. This ensures that you have enough time to charge your phone. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avoid using USB chargers and prefer electrical charging outlets as they don\u2019t allow data transfer. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the most convenient and safest way is to carry your own power bank. You can additionally keep an extra battery as well. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can switch off your phone before connecting it to a public phone charging station. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can also get a charge-only cable to prevent your device from getting juice jacked. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ensure that your phone has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reveantivirus.com\/mobile_security\" target=\"_blank\">mobile security antivirus <\/a>as it helps in removing malware and keeping the phone safe from intruders.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No matter whether you are using an Android phone, Windows or iPhone, hackers can juice-jack any phone if the above mentioned security measures are not considered. You can also learn about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reveantivirus.com\/blog\/en\/popular-mobile-hacking-tools#\">5 Popular Mobile Hacking Tools Used to Target Smartphone Users<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public cell phone charging station are a real bliss when you are running out of your phone\u2019s battery and forgot to bring your own charger. However, these charging ports are one of the new attacking vectors used by cyber criminals to steal sensitive user data and the attack method is known as Juice Jacking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[94,203,93,317],"tags":[524],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Juice Jacking is yet another cyber attack method used by hackers to target smartphones connected to public charging ports.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reveantivirus.com\/blog\/en\/juice-jacking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Juice Jacking - How it Happens &amp; 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