Until now, I’m sure you all might have heard of the SimJacker vulnerability disclosed exactly a month ago that affects a wide range of SIM cards and can remotely be exploited to hack into any mobile phone just by sending a specially crafted binary SMS. If you are unaware, the name “SimJacker” has been given […]
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More SIM Cards Vulnerable to Simjacker Attack Than Previously Disclosed
Remember the Simjacker vulnerability? Earlier this month, we reported about a critical unpatched weakness in a wide range of SIM cards, which an unnamed surveillance company has actively been exploiting in the wild to remotely compromise targeted mobile phones just by sending a specially crafted SMS to their phone numbers. If you can recall, the […]
New SIM Card Flaw Lets Hackers Hijack Any Phone Just By Sending SMS
Cybersecurity researchers today revealed the existence of a new and previously undetected critical vulnerability in SIM cards that could allow remote attackers to compromise targeted mobile phones and spy on victims just by sending an SMS. Dubbed “SimJacker,” the vulnerability resides in a particular piece of software, called the S@T Browser, a dynamic SIM toolkit […]
Twitter temporarily disables ‘Tweeting via SMS’ after CEO gets hacked
Twitter today finally decided to temporarily disable a feature, called ‘Tweeting via SMS,’ after it was abused by a hacking group to compromise Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey last week and sent a series of racist and offensive tweets to Dorsey’s followers. Dorsey’s Twitter account was compromised last week when a hacker group calling itself “Chuckling […]