How to Check if You Are Being Spied On Through Your Mobile Phone

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I have read many different tips on how to detect spying from your mobile phone, some suggest checking with antivirus software or even better, with several. Forget it. If spyware is detected by antivirus software, it is no longer spyware. Antivirus will not help you in this case, and some popular antivirus programs themselves operate like spyware.

A much more practical tip concerns increased heating and accelerated battery drain. No matter how talented the creator of the spyware is, for constant eavesdropping of the environment, it will need to use battery power – and battery consumption will inevitably increase. However, if the spyware only operates during the phone's activity, it will hardly affect the battery.

We can only hope that the attackers will want to listen to the perimeter around the phone constantly and thus reveal themselves. There are programs that analyze battery consumption and allow you to compare changes over months. We will use this tool to look for indirect signs of mobile compromise.