Wi-Fi Hacking Risks and Prevention

Many private Wi-Fi networks are sometimes hacked, and hackers exploit these networks to spy on their users, but there are several ways to protect these networks.

On the subject, Russian cybersecurity expert at MTS Web Services, Jamil Mezhidov, said: “After hacking a Wi-Fi network, hackers can monitor the activities of its users. They can also exploit this to install malicious software on users’ devices to spy on them, exploit the devices to carry out cyber attacks, and through these networks they can also access data on smart devices.”

He added: “There are several indicators that indicate that your router has been hacked, the first of which is a slow internet speed, which indicates that an internet hacker or someone around you is using your Wi-Fi network to download large amounts of data. To verify this, you should review the IP addresses connected to the network and compare them with the addresses of your devices, and block any strange or unknown address.”

Other things that may indicate a Wi-Fi network has been hacked, according to the expert, include the appearance of a large number of advertisements or the appearance of unusual pages while browsing the Internet.

To protect Wi-Fi networks from hacking, the expert advises changing the user settings of the router every so often, changing the username and password in these settings, using protection and network monitoring programs, and downloading new updates issued for routers as they correct software errors that could cause computers and networks to be hacked.