Collaborate Disseminate
By Waqas
Carlos Guerrero, a prominent businessman marketed and sold hacking tools, IMSI catchers, and other malicious tools to clients…
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Cyberattackers could use the information to track users across devices, disable phone service, or intercept messages and phone calls. Continue reading Baidu Apps in Google Play Leak Sensitive Data
By Sudais Asif
Dubbed Crocodile Hunter; the tool works by scanning for 4G signals.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New tool detects fake 4G cell phone towers
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By Waqas
A team of researchers has disclosed their findings at the NDSS (Network and Distributed System Security) symposium 2019 held in San Diego, revealing that cellular networks have certain vulnerabilities that can potentially affect not only 4G bu… Continue reading Cellular networks flaws expose 4G & 5G devices to IMSI capturing attacks
The attack threatens users with location-tracking, DoS, fake notifications and more. Continue reading ToRPEDO Privacy Attack on 4G/5G Networks Affects All U.S. Carriers
Last week, I had a unique opportunity to attend a demo of a “cool” product (I insist on the quotes around cool): A complete solution to track and intercept mobile devices. The company presents itself as a partner of law enforcement services, governments or special agencies (you know all the
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If there’s one thing that’s making you insecure, it’s your smartphone. Your smartphone is constantly pinging the cell towers, giving out your location and potentially leaking your private information to anyone with a radio. This is the idea behind an IMSI catcher, or Stingray in common parlance, and now you too can build one with parts you can buy off of Amazon.
The key to this hack is a software defined radio dongle, or RTL-SDR, that has been repurposed to listen in on a GSM network. Literally the only hardware required is an RTL-SDR that can be bought online for …read more
Continue reading It Might Be Possible To Build A Stingray With A Raspberry Pi
Surveillance takes on different character when it trickles down to more ordinary, everyday users. The significance and threat from IMSI-catchers is multiplied when a lot more people can deploy one using cheap tech from Amazon and free code from Github. Continue reading With $20 of Gear from Amazon, Nearly Anyone Can Make This IMSI-Catcher in 30 Minutes
SiFive raised $50 Million in funding. SiFive is a semiconductor working on two fronts: they want to democratize silicon prototyping, and they’re the people making the HiFive series of microcontrollers and SoCs. The HiFives are built on the RISC-V instruction set, a Big-O Open instruction set for everything from tiny microcontrollers to server CPUs. With RISC-V, you’re not tied to licensing from ARM or their ilk. Recently SiFive introduced an SoC capable of running Linux, and the HiFive 1 is a very fast, very capable microcontroller that’s making inroads with Nvidia and Western Digital. The new round of funding is …read more
The bug exposed customers’ email addresses, their billing account numbers, and the phone’s IMSI numbers. T-Mobile has patched the bug. Continue reading T-Mobile Website Allowed Hackers to Access Your Account Data With Just Your Phone Number