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 […]
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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 […]