A method and an apparatus of verifying a terminal are provided in the field of computer technology. In the method, the terminal establishes a secure channel with a server through a secure element in the terminal. The terminal sends original terminal hardware parameters in the secure element to the server through the secure channel by using the secure element, where the server is configured to feed back identification information according to the terminal hardware parameters. The terminal then determines a verification result of an authenticity of the terminal according to the identification information fed back by the server. The apparatus includes: a channel establishing module, a parameter sending module and a result determining module. The present disclosure solves the problem that the verification application program cannot identify the authenticity of the terminal due to the degradation of the terminal performance, and achieves the effect that the accuracy of the authenticity of verifying the terminal is improved.