"Meet 'Simjacker,' a Nasty Mobile Vulnerability Researchers say Puts 1 Billion Phones at Risk"
A research team has found an SMS-based hacking technique that actively is being exploited by a spyware vendor to track individual phone users. The attack is being dubbed “Simjacker,” and has ramifications for more than 1 billion mobile phones worldwide. The attack relies on malicious text messages, hackers infect target phones to retrieve location information and other data. The attack leverages SIM cards, a circuit that stores customers’ international mobile subscriber information in a way that isn’t restricted to a single phone platform.
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