Free WiFi or steal your bank card

In hotels, guesthouses, restaurants, cafes and other public places to connect free WiFi, has become a "rub net family" habits. However, there is no free lunch in the world. Some hackers are using their free WiFi hotspots to steal user bank accounts and passwords. Therefore, Tencent mobile butler reminds the majority of mobile users not to easily connect to public free WiFi to avoid account loss.

A netizen broke the news on Weibo, and once on the Internet at Starbucks, he opened the phone's WiFi wireless network to search and found that there is a wireless network called Starbucks2, can log in immediately without a password, then conducted an online banking payment and other operations , Soon after found that the original password can not log in, they immediately feel hacked, but fortunately few funds within the account.

In this regard, Tencent mobile butler security expert analysis, in Starbucks, KFC and other public places, hackers can be completely through a portable WiFi to create AP hotspot, and the hotspot name is set to "Starbucks", to trick users to access privately set WiFi. When a user's mobile phone access and login third-party payment, online banking, stock accounts, hackers can steal user account password information. You can also send phishing URLs to users, trick users into entering personal account information, and immediately steal user bank cards and mobile wallet with stolen information.

Therefore, Tencent security experts recommend mobile phone users, do not easily access some free WiFi hotspots, when access should do the following aspects:

First, ask cafes, restaurants, hotels, hotel staff, their free WiFi account and password. This will reduce the probability of access to some disguised free WiFi.

Second, the phone should not be set to automatically access WiFi, so as not to be blindly connected to some disguised WiFi without any knowledge. Select manual access is relatively safe, while the regular free WiFi you need to log in to the password, you can log in without a password WiFi try not to connect.

Finally, the installation of Tencent mobile phone software and other security software, users access to free WiFi when the security scan will encounter free WiFi fishing, hacking behavior, Tencent mobile butler can intercept and remind, in order to avoid the phone suffered hacking .