Detect Keyloggers in Android Smartphones

For detecting the keylogger in your smartphone, many symptoms indicate that there is a keylogger or another malicious program installed in your Android device. So let’s see what these are these symptoms and if you find those in your devices then immediately take the appropriate action to protect your device.

• Battery discharges unexpectedly: Usually, programs drain the battery for their functioning as the processor gets used by the program, and the processor used battery power to process the functions. So if you find your device battery is drained unusually and gets discharged quickly then it may be a higher probability that there is a malicious program installed on your Android device. Keylogger also runs in the background and used the device battery and processor silently to spy on your device. 
• Device Performance decreases: When a malicious program, spyware, or keylogger gets installed on your device then your device performance gets reduced. And the device starts to behave unusually. Nowadays, the android smartphone comes with a fully optimized version and performs better, So if your device is not working better as it is configured. then there may be some issue with the device, and you have to take the action.
• Overheating of Android Phone: Overheating is generally caused by running programs in the background. If you find your device is always overheated in the ideal situation, for example, if you are not using your phone and till it gets overheated. Then there may be a major probability that your device has a keylogger, which runs in the device’s background.
• The device starts hanging: It is also one of the symptoms that your device starts working improperly and shuts up and down irregularly. many times it occurs due to the pending software update or your device is not updated to the current version. If all these unusual things occur with your device then it is recommended to check your device whether there is a keylogger installed in your device or not.

Android operating system is the largest installed base among various mobile platforms across the globe. Hundreds of millions of mobile devices are powered by Android in more than 190 countries of the world. It conquered around 71% of the global market share by the end of 2021, and this trend is growing bigger every other day. As Android is the most popular operating system used by most smartphones. Therefore, hackers are always trying to steal sensitive and financial data from Android users. To perform this illegal activity they often used malicious software and programs so that they steal data from smartphones. And one of the most used malicious software used by hackers is the keylogger.