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Do i have to buy a new iPhone?

Started by Forumappelnaam , Sep 23 2023 05:44 PM

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#1 Forumappelnaam

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Posted 23 September 2023 - 05:44 PM

I recently bought a iPhone SE 2022.

Now i was so stupid to use open wifi, without a password where im staying atm. Please dont ask why, and all kinds of questions why this or that or the validity of my claims. Please just try to answer the question, that helps me most for my ease of mind.

But advanced hackers are targeting me, because of some reasons im to tired to explain.

They have read my messages and surfing data, and maybe tapped my phone calls, i also notice if i call sometimes it hangs up mid call and gets forwarded to Some unknown foreign person.

Can they also get serial number and imei, iccid, seid, eid, model number and whatever? If they do, even if i reset my iphone (delete all and reset, which i did), can they still hack me again and read messages record phone calls etc? Even if i just use cellular data and activate lockdown mode?

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#2 buddy215

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Posted 23 September 2023 - 06:25 PM

You should reset the phone per what you have reported. If you have synced it with other

devices turn the power off to those devices before resetting and changing any passwords.

“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded and the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics...you are all stardust.”― Lawrence M. Krauss
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other. Ulysses S. Grant...Republican president who correctly predicted the cause of Trump's attempted coup.

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#3 Forumappelnaam

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Posted 24 September 2023 - 12:02 AM

I havent synced it with any devices, im sorry but what do you mean with per what i have reported?

Multiple resets? I have heard most malware and whatever fishy stuff gets destroyed with a reset, but not always.

How does some malware spyware survival that? Does if modify the hardware? But can a hacker hack me if they have those codes i just mentioned?

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#4 buddy215

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Posted 24 September 2023 - 02:43 AM

One way malware and adware survives is thru syncing with other devices. If you are not experiencing

any similar problem to what you were having before resetting then I would think resetting removed the

problem.

Malware creators are in it to make money and spy on governments....not to harass private citizens. .

Jail breaking iphones is probably the main source of malware on them. Often that leads to the user

installing apps not from the Apple store.

You should read the recent articles linked below and update your phone if you haven't done that.

Apple emergency updates fix 3 new zero-days exploited in attacks

Recently patched Apple, Chrome zero-days exploited in spyware attacks

“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded and the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics...you are all stardust.”― Lawrence M. Krauss
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other. Ulysses S. Grant...Republican president who correctly predicted the cause of Trump's attempted coup.

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#5 Forumappelnaam

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Posted 24 September 2023 - 03:15 AM

In my case those hackers are very mad at me for reasons they themselfs are to blame. So they are personally attacking me. Are you working in IT? Do you know a lot About it?

Im still worried because if they spy on my phone in most cases its conpletely silent, i know they did because somebody showed me to intimidate me, they showed my whatsapps and messenger chats. With my previous phone they even activated my microphone remotely so they could hear everything i said without even me calling somebody. This is a nightmare.

Does lockdown mode help a lot against those hackers or is it more against goverment spyware attacks?

And what information can they use to hack my phone again (after the factory reset) when they had acces to my phone when i was on open wifi?

Can there still be a hardware malware or something present on iphone or is the iphone hardware sufficiently safe? What about icloud, i havent actively uploaded anything to it but it does that automatically right? Should I turn off icloud and remove everything from it and reset again?

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Posted 24 September 2023 - 03:16 AM

I also installed a app called certo and it can tell you if the iphone is jailbreaked or not, mine is not jailbreaked it says.

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#7 greg18

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Posted 28 September 2023 - 01:21 PM

First off how do you know that anyone is trying to hack your device specifically and not the network in a whole. iOS is so well sandboxed in that there is no way some random entity is going to target the Darwin OS base that runs iOS and iPadOS just on one specific random network.

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#8 greg18

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Posted 28 September 2023 - 01:23 PM

I also installed a app called certo and it can tell you if the iphone is jailbreaked or not, mine is not jailbreaked it says.

There is zero reason to install that garbage on iOS.

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#9 jamesmartin1

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Posted 03 December 2023 - 02:59 PM

You should reset the phone. Before resetting and changing any passwords, make sure to turn off the power to any other devices that are synced with it.
If your phone is still messing up, you can also apply for a Free iPhone if you are based in USA.