[CyberNews] It is 10 times worse than what it's DNS logs report.A single app can connect to dozens of websites while unused. An idle phone will make thousands of DNS queries per day. But the real situation is 10 times worse, one security expert explains.
Cybernews has already experimented with idle Android and iOS phones, each with 100 apps installed. When unused, the iPhone averaged 3308 DNS queries per day, compared to 2323 queries made by Android. Some requests, more often on Android, landed in high-risk countries such as Russia and China.
Say you install the Reddit app on your iPhone, start it once, and leave it without even logging in or interacting. It will connect to 30 different domains, according to research from Independent Advisor VPN...
Reddit was followed by QQ, the Chinese instant messaging software, which connected to 19 different domains.
Among the mainstream social networks, Instagram and X (Twitter) both connected to 10 different domains, each without any user interaction.