What is keylogger?
How does hacker use keylogger to hack social media account and steal important data for money extortion and many uses of keylogger ?
Types of keylogger?
How to detect it on your system?
Keylogger is a tool that hacker use to monitor and record the keystroke you made on your keyboard. Keylogger is the action of recording the keys struck on a keyboard and it has capability to record every keystroke made on that system as well as monitor screen recording also. This is the oldest forms of malware.
Sometimes it is called a keystroke logger or system monitor is a type of surveillance technology used to monitor and record each keystroke type a specific computer's keyboard. It is also available for use on smartphones such as Apple,I-phone and Android devices.
A keylogger can record instant messages,email and capture any information you type at any time using your keyboard,including usernames password of your social media ac and personal identifying pin etc thats the reason some hacker use it to hack social media account for money extortion.
These are the best uses of keylogger are as follows-
1-Employers to observe employee's computer activity.
2-Attacker / Hacker used for hacking some crucial data of any organisation for money extortion.
3-Parental Control is use to supervise their chindren's internet usage and check to control the browsing history of their child.
4-Criminals use keylogger to steal personal or financial information such as banking details credit card details etc which they will sell and earn a goof profit.
5-Spouse/Gf tracking-if you are facing this issue that your Spouse or Gf is cheating on you then you can install a keylogger on her cell phone to monitor her activities over the internet whatever you want such as check Whats app, facebook and cell phone texts messages etc .
Basically there are two types of keylogger either the software or hardware but the most common types of keylogger across both these are as follows-
API based keylogger
Form Grabbing Based Keylogger
Kernal Based Keylogger
Acoustic Keylogger ETC .
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