CNBC-TV18.com
Published May 22, 2024
By Bhagyashree Vaswani
Spam and phishing files containing malicious links and malware can be sent to your device by hackers without your permission.
Through bluesnarfing - a dangerous cyberattack - your photos, contacts, and other data can be accessed by hackers.
You could unknowingly give hackers control to your phone’s crucial functions including making calls and sending texts.
Bluetooth can be a huge vulnerability for cars with keyless entry, hackers could potentially unlock and steal the vehicle.
There’s a high risk of identity theft or fraud since hackers could meddle with data sent between devices.
Your phone could be frozen, or even crashed by hackers sending oversized packets of data, this could open your device up to more severe attacks once it has crashed.
Hackers can gain backdoor access to your device through secret Bluetooth connections, this is known as bluebugging and it could be used to access your private data.
Hackers could intercept your Bluetooth signal to listen to your phone calls and read your messages.