Tag: SS7
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Feds finally decide to do something about years-old SS7 spy holes in phone networks
The FCC appears to finally be stepping up efforts to secure decades-old flaws in American telephone networks that are allegedly being used …
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SS7 Exploit Service Providers on The Dark Web are Fake
In Signalling System No. 7 or SS7 back in 2016, the cybersecurity researchers warned of vulnerabilities in it, and as a result, just a year …
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Most SS7 exploit service providers on dark web are scammers
The existence of Signaling System 7 (SS7) mobile telephony protocol vulnerabilities is something security researchers warned about in 2016, …
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Flaw in SS7 Lets Attackers Empty Bank Accounts
A UK bank fell victim to a malicious SS7 attack that led to cyber-criminals emptying bank accounts at the UK’s Metro Bank, according to …
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Trump has two ‘secure’ iPhones, but the Chinese are still listening
President Trump has three iPhones — two of them are “secure” and his third is a regular personal device. But whenever the …
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DHS: ‘Nefarious actors’ could be exploiting SS7 flaw
The Department of Homeland Security has received reports that “nefarious actors” may be exploiting cellular communications …
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Stingray phone stalker tech used near White House, SS7 abused to steal US citizens’ info – just Friday things
The US government has confirmed someone spied on smartphones in America’s capital using a fake cellphone tower – and miscreants abused …
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Why SMS two-factor authentication puts your bitcoins at risk
For years, we’ve known that there’s a flaw in the backbone of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) that makes it vulnerable to hackers, crooks and surveillance-happy governments. The flaw is in Signaling System No. Read full news article on Naked Security
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Researchers demonstrate how to steal Bitcoin by exploiting SS7 issues
Hackers have exploited security weaknesses in SS7 protocol to break into a GMail account, take control of a bitcoin wallet and steal funds. In June 2016, researchers with Positive Technologies demonstrated that it is possible to hack Facebook accounts by knowing phone numbers by exploiting a flaw in the SS7 protocol. Read full news article…
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Someone checked and, yup, you can still hijack Gmail, Bitcoin wallets etc via dirty SS7 tricks
Once again, it’s been demonstrated that vulnerabilities in cellphone networks can be exploited to intercept one-time two-factor authentication tokens in text messages. Specifically, the security shortcomings lie in the Signaling System 7 (SS7) protocol, which is used to by networks worldwide to talk to each other to route calls, and so on. Read full news…
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Coinbase vulnerability is a good reminder that SMS-based 2FA can wreak havoc
Two days ago, a friend who invested in Bitcoin asked me how secure her Coinbase investment was. She had plans to put her coins in cold storage but as a security stopgap was relying on two-factor authentication (2FA) through Coinbase, as many people do. Read full news article on TechCrunch
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