How to detect keyloggers on Android? Are there any specific steps to it?
Are 'keyloggers' impossible to detect due to the fact that there are no 'real' keystrokes to log? Is this kind of attack simply not possible on touchscreens? I read about two types of keyloggers - Software Keyloggers
Software keyloggers are applications that must be installed on the computer to work. This is the most common type of keyloggers that hackers spread on the Internet. Software keyloggers install on the computer when the user downloads an infected application. Once installed, it monitors the paths of the operating system that the keys you press on the keyboard have to go through. That’s how software keyloggers track and record keystrokes. Then it transmits the information to the hacker via a remote server.
Hardware keyloggers work the same way as software keyloggers. Their only difference is hardware keyloggers must be attached to a computer to record keystrokes. To retrieve the information, the hacker needs to download it from the storage device. Retrieving data while hardware keylogger is at work is not possible. The workaround is to make the device accessible via WIFI to obtain data. Some examples of hardware keyloggers are acoustic keylogger and keyboard keylogger.
To see how to detect keyloggers on Android, you can Stop android to send keyboard keystrokes:
- A scenario for preventing the keyboard on sending would be by using a firewall.
- For NON-Rooted phones this ones should do the trick:
- NoRoot Firewall >> www.play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.greyshirts.firewall
- Mobiwol >> www.play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netspark.firewall
In this moment, Mobiwol and NoRoot firewall have different feautures, NoRoot Firewall has the advantage to "see" in the logs what is wishing to connect to the internet, while Mobiwol has the advantage of blocking "in the mass/batch" and "backgorund/foreground" internet traffic blocking.
I WONDER IF IT IS LEGAL for Phone Manufactures to implant a such keyboard spyware to send keystrokes to google. In this moment, my phone is sending every thing I type, in SMS, CALLS, BROWSER, GAMES, OFFICE, WORD, and so on to the Google Servers. I wonder why, and maybe I will take some legal action, because the phone is sending info to Google, and I had NOT agreed anywhere this thing.