Easy SMS Hijacking

Vice is reporting on a cell phone vulnerability caused by commercial SMS services. One of the things these services permit is text message forwarding. It turns out that with a little bit of anonymous money -- in this case, $16 off an anonymous prepaid credit card -- and a few lies, you can forwar...

CVE-2020-11222

Buffer over read while processing MT SMS with maximum length due to improper length check in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile...

Design/Logic Flaw

Buffer over read while processing MT SMS with maximum length due to improper length check in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile...

CVE-2020-11222

CVE-2020-11222 is a buffer over-read in Qualcomm Snapdragon components (Auto, Compute, Connectivity, C IoT, Industrial IoT, IoT, Mobile) triggered when processing MT SMS messages at maximum length due to improper length checking. The vulnerability is described across NVD/Red Hat/PRION/CVE lists a...

CVE-2020-11222

Buffer over read while processing MT SMS with maximum length due to improper length check in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile...

Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

SMS text messages were already the weakest link securing just about anything online, mainly because there are tens of thousands of employees at mobile stores who can be tricked or bribed into swapping control over a mobile phone number to someone else. Now were learning about an entire ecosystem ...

CVE-2020-28899

The Web CGI Script on ZyXEL LTE4506-M606 V1.00ABDO.2C0 devices does not require authentication, which allows remote unauthenticated attackers via crafted JSON action data to /cgi-bin/gui.cgi to use all features provided by the router. Examples: change the router password, retrieve the Wi-Fi...

VK.com: Отправляем смс на любой номер от имени vk.com. (Сообщение в смс всегда одно и то же, его менять нельзя.)

Отправка SMS на любой номер для установки официальных приложений есть лимиты...

Fake-Sms - A Simple Command Line Tool Using Which You Can Skip Phone Number Based SMS Verification By Using A Temporary Phone Number That Acts Like A Proxy

A simple command line tool using which you can skip phone number based SMS verification by using a temporary phone number that acts like a proxy. Note-1: This is just an experimental tool, do not use this in any banking transactions. Unethical use of this tool is strictly not encouraged." Note-2:...

Mobile Adware Booms, Online Banks Become Prime Target for Attacks

Hackers painted a bullseye on the backs of online financial institutions in 2020 as the pandemic shuttered local branch offices and forced customers online. Over the past 12 months, incidents of adware nearly tripled. And, overall in 2020 researchers saw a slight drop in the number of mobile...

Annoyingly Believable Tax Refund Scam Targets Mobile

A text message-based tax scam is making the rounds in the U.K., in a probable harbinger of things to come as the U.S. tax season gets underway in earnest. SMS messages are going out to unsuspecting U.K. citizens claiming to be from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs HMRC, the country’s...

Military, Nuclear Entities Under Target By Novel Android Malware

Researchers have uncovered two novel Android surveillanceware families being used by an advanced persistent threat APT group to target military, nuclear and election entities in Pakistan and Kashmir. The two malware families, which researchers call “Hornbill” and “SunBird,” have sophisticated...

CVE-2019-20470

An issue was discovered on TK-Star Q90 Junior GPS horloge 3.1042.9.8656 devices. It performs actions based on certain SMS commands. This can be used to set up a voice communication channel from the watch to any telephone number, initiated by sending a specific SMS and using the default password,...

CVE-2019-20470

An issue was discovered on TK-Star Q90 Junior GPS horloge 3.1042.9.8656 devices. It performs actions based on certain SMS commands. This can be used to set up a voice communication channel from the watch to any telephone number, initiated by sending a specific SMS and using the default password,...

Default credentials

An issue was discovered on TK-Star Q90 Junior GPS horloge 3.1042.9.8656 devices. It performs actions based on certain SMS commands. This can be used to set up a voice communication channel from the watch to any telephone number, initiated by sending a specific SMS and using the default password,...

CVE-2019-20470

The TK-Star Q90 Junior GPS watch (firmware 3.1042.9.8656) is affected by CVE-2019-20470 and CVE-2019-20471. A default administrative password (123456) is used at initial setup and there is no prompt to change it. An SMS with the proper password, e.g., pw,,call,, can trigger the watch to initiate ...

CVE-2019-20470

An issue was discovered on TK-Star Q90 Junior GPS horloge 3.1042.9.8656 devices. It performs actions based on certain SMS commands. This can be used to set up a voice communication channel from the watch to any telephone number, initiated by sending a specific SMS and using the default password,...

CVE-2019-20470

An issue was discovered on TK-Star Q90 Junior GPS horloge 3.1042.9.8656 devices. It performs actions based on certain SMS commands. This can be used to set up a voice communication channel from the watch to any telephone number, initiated by sending a specific SMS and using the default password,...

U.K. Arrest in ‘SMS Bandits’ Phishing Service

Authorities in the United Kingdom have arrested a 20-year-old man for allegedly operating an online service for sending high-volume phishing campaigns via mobile text messages. The service, marketed in the underground under the name "SMS Bandits," has been responsible for blasting out huge volume...

TK-Star Q90 Junior GPS horloge security vulnerability

The TK-Star Q90 Junior GPS horloge is a Gps location tracker from TK-Star China. A security vulnerability exists in the TK-Star Q90 Junior GPS horloge 3.1042.9.8656 devices that allows execution of operations based on specific SMS commands...