How Can a “Pineapple” Steal You?

  1. Dubai – Masaader News

It’s a black box has the size of a cigarette packet with two antennae on top, this is a ‘pineapple’, It resembles no fruit. Although it looks pretty innocuous, it has the ability to spy on every move you do with your computer, according to This is Money.

This £200 gadget is designed to imitate the signal of the wi-fi that everyone wish to join, it can trick me into using its internet service rather than the real thing.

While I use it to check my emails and surf the net it is tracking everything I do – picking up details I tap in, such as passwords and credit card numbers, which can later be used to rob me blind.

In just a few minutes, The hacker can access to all the contacts on my computer – a goldmine for future phishing expeditions. This is where crooks send out scam emails to try to trick recipients out of cash.