HOW THEY HACKED MY IPHONE
THE PICTURE BELOW SHOWS HOW YOU CAN CUSTOMIZE THE APN SETTINGS WHICH IN MY CASE WAS DONE IN ORDER TO DIRECT MY PHONE TO ROGUE SERVER WHERE THE HOA HAO GATHERED DATA ABOUT WHAT INTERNET REQUESTS MY PHONE WAS DOING AND RECORDING EVERYTHING BEFORE CONNECTING MY PHONE TO WHERE IT WANTED TO GO. THIS ALLOWED THEM TO SNIFF ALL OF MY INTERNET COMMUNICATION INCLUDING USERNAMES AND PASSWORDS BECAUSE THEY HAD CORRUPT CERTIFICATES INSTALLED TOO THAT VALIDATED WEB REQUESTS TO FICTITIOUS LOCATIONS AS BEING VALID
An Access Point Name (APN) is a configurable network identifier used by a mobile device when connecting to a GSM carrier. The carrier will then examine this identifier to determine what type of network connection should be created, for example: what IP addresses should be assigned to the wireless device, what security methods should be used (f any), and how or if, it should be connected to some private customer network which was done in my situation.
THE PICTURE BELOW SHOWS THE MOBILE DEVICE MANAGEMENT SECTION WHERE THE PHONE CAN BE CONFIGURED TO CONNECT TO A SPECIFIC SERVER FOR UPDATES THAT CAN DO MANY THINGS, LIKE TELL YOUR PHONE WHERE TO LOOK FOR UPDATES AND ALSO IF YOUR PHONE SHOULD COPY INFORMATION REGARDING THE CHECKED ITEMS, WHICH CAN BE USED BY THE CULPRIT TO STUDY YOUR SETTINGS BEFORE RESENDING A PUSH UPDATE TO YOUR PHONE. THIS BASICALLY MAKES IT SO THAT EVEN IF YOU MAKE TONS OF CHANGES TO YOUR SETTINGS, THEY CAN JUST SEND A QUICK PUSH NOTIFICATION AND RESET YOUR PHONE TO THE SETTINGS THEY HAD. THE IPHONE CONFIGURATION UTILITY IS LIKE GOD TO YOUR IPHONE, YOU ARE AT ITS MERCY ONCE A NON-REMOVABLE PROFILE IS INSTALLED. THERE ARE ALSO SETTINGS THAT ALLOW THEM TO MAKE IT SO AN ICLOUD SYNC IS FORCED WHICH THEY USED TO SYNC WITH ANOTHER IPHONE WHICH ESSENTIALLY GAVE THEM A REAL TIME CLONE OF MY PHONE BECAUSE AS I CHANGED SOMETHING IT INSTANTLY CHANGED WITHIN SECONDS ON THEIR PHONE. THEY WERE TRYING TO FRAME ME BY SYNCING TEXT MESSAGES THAT THEY SENT AND WHICH WOULD THEN POPULATE ON MY PHONE SO IF MY PHONE WAS CONFISCATED, THEY COULD SEE EVIDENCE OF A CRIME IN THE MESSAGES EVEN THOUGH I DIDN’T SEND THE MESSAGE. REMEMBER, THEY CONTROLLED MY APN SETTINGS AND PROBABLY HAD A CLONE OF MY SIM IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE MY ACTUAL PHONE NUMBER SENT THE MESSAGE.
THE PICTURE BELOW IS THE SECTION WHERE THEY CAN INSTALL CERTIFICATES ON YOUR PHONE THAT TELLS IT WHAT WEBSITES ARE LEGITIMATE OR NOT, WHICH THEY USE TO CONCEAL THE FRAUDULENT DANGEROUS SITES THEY CONTROL AND HAVE YOUR PHONE LOOK TO FOR ITS SETTINGS
THE PICTURE BELOW SHOWS THE CALDAV SETTINGS THAT CAN BE USED TO AUTOMATICALLY SYNC CORRUPT SETTINGS INTO YOUR PHONE WITHOUT NEEDING TO PUSH THEM AS A MESSAGE
THE PICTURE BELOW SHOWS HOW THEY CAN SET YOUR PHONE TO SEND ALL MAIL THROUGH ONE EXCHANGE ACCOUNT EVEN IF YOU HAVE 10 EMAIL ACCOUNTS SETUP ON YOUR PHONE. THEY CAN STEAL ALL OF YOUR MAIL THIS WAY BY USING THAT SETTING AND THEN SENDING A PUSH UPDATE TO ALLOW YOUR PHONE TO DELIVER THE MAIL AS YOU ORIGINALLY WANTED ( I.E YOUR YAHOO ACCOUNT ETC… ) AND THEN RESEND ANOTHER PUSH NOTIFICATION TO PUT IT BACK THE WAY IT WAS.
THE PICTURE BELOW SHOWS THE WEBAPP SECTION WHICH IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS BECAUSE THEY CAN INSTALL ANY ICON THEY WANT TO AND HAVE THAT APPLICATION OPEN IN FULL SCREEN MODE AND GO TO A WEB URL OF THEIR CHOOSING. IN MY EXAMPLE BELOW YOU CAN SEE A SKYPE ICON WHICH IS WHAT THEY DID TO ME. THEY INSTALLED A WEBAPP THAT I THOUGHT WAS SKYPE BUT WAS REALLY A FAKE SKYPE ICON THAT WENT TO AN HTML5 WEBSITE ADDRESS CONTROLLED BY THEM THAT MIMIC’D THE SKYPE PROGRAM WHERE THEY COULD EITHER CONNECT MY SKYPE CALLS OR NOT. I FIGURED THIS OUT WHEN ALL OF MY OUTGOING CALLS WERE GOING TO VOICEMAIL SO I TRIED TO DIAL MY MOTHER’S CELL DIRECTLY ON THE KEYPAD RATHER THAN CLICK ON HER CONTACT AND ALL OF A SUDDEN I GOT THROUGH. THEY TOOK THE TIME TO RECORD EVERYBODY’S VOICEMAIL IN MY CONTACT LIST IN ORDER TO PREVENT ME FROM CALLING FOR HELP SINCE I WOULD BE LEAVING A MESSAGE ON THEIR SERVER AND NOT WITH MY MOTHER LIKE I THOUGHT. I NOTICED THAT MY SKYPE ICON DIDN’T HAVE AN “X” NEXT TO IT WHERE I COULD DELETE IT LIKE THE INSTALLED APPS SHOULD. THATS HOW I FIGURED OUT THAT THEY USED THIS PROGRAM TO MAKE A FAKE SKYPE IN ORDER TO ISOLATE ME!
THE PICTURE BELOW ARE THE WIFI SETTINGS. THEY USED THIS TO SET IT UP THAT MY PHONE WOULD JOIN THEIR HIDDEN NETWORK THAT WAS THE SAME NAME AS THE ONE I USUALLY JOINED. IF THE NETWORK I USUALLY JOINED WAS NAMED “BELKIN”, THEY WOULD MAKE AN INVISIBLE NETWORK NAMED “BELKIN” AND HAVE IT SO MY PHONE JOINED THAT NETWORK AUTOMATICALLY. I WOULD SEE THAT I AM ON THE BELKIN NETWORK AND NOT THINK ANYTHING EVEN THOUGH I WAS REALLY ON THEIR NETWORK NAMED BELKIN WHERE THEY WOULD SNIFF ALL OF MY TRAFFIC AND WORSE YET, WOULD SET MY PHONE TO USE THEIR DNS SERVERS WHICH DID THINGS LIKE SEND ME TO AN IMPOSTER GOOGLE SITE THAT WAS SET TO AUTOMATICALLY GIVE ME GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS FROM ONLY 2008 OR BEFORE WHICH PREVENTED ME FROM FINDING ANSWERS TO THE THINGS THAT WERE HAPPENING TO MY COMPUTERS SINCE MANY OF THE THINGS THEY WERE DOING JUST GOT DISCOVERED RECENTLY. THEY ALSO SUCCESSFULLY STOLE ALL OF MY PASSWORDS BY SENDING ME TO A CLONED PAGE OF THE REAL WEBPAGE SO IF I WENT TO EVERNOTE.COM TO LOGIN, THEY WOULD FETCH EVERNOTE.COM, DISPLAY IT ON THEIR SERVER AND RECORD MY USERNAME AND PASSWORD BEFORE FORWARDING ME TO THE REAL EVERNOTE.COM. THEY DID THE SAME THING TO MY HOME NETWORK BY INSTALLING DD-WRT ON MY ROUTER SO MY COMPUTERS WERE REDIRECTED THE SAME EXACT WAY AS I JUST DESCRIBED WHICH ALLOWED THEM TO MIMIC EVERYTHING THEY DID ON MY IPHONE AND DO EXACTLY THE SAME ON ANY COMPUTER I USED. ONCE THEY GOT THEIR CLAWS INTO ME IT WAS VERY HARD TO GET AWAY, ESPECIALLY WHEN I DIDN’T EVEN REALIZE HOW THEY WERE DOING IT UNTIL MONTHS AFTER I LEFT VIETNAM.
THEY ALSO HARDWARE HACKED ALL OF MY WIFI ROUTERS TO PREVENT ME FROM RESETTING THE ROUTER.


















