CVE-2019-16401

Samsung Galaxy S8 plus Android version: 8.0.0, Build Number: R16NW.G955USQU5CRG3, Baseband Vendor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, Baseband: G955USQU5CRG3, Samsung Galaxy S3 Android version: 4.3, Build Number: JSS15J.I9300XXUGND5, Baseband Vendor: Samsung Exynos 4412, Baseband: I9300XXUGNA8, and Samsung...

Code injection

Samsung Galaxy S8 plus Android version: 8.0.0, Build Number: R16NW.G955USQU5CRG3, Baseband Vendor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, Baseband: G955USQU5CRG3, Samsung Galaxy S3 Android version: 4.3, Build Number: JSS15J.I9300XXUGND5, Baseband Vendor: Samsung Exynos 4412, Baseband: I9300XXUGNA8, and Samsung...

CVE-2019-16401

The CVE-2019-16401 entry concerns Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus, Galaxy S3, and Galaxy Note 2 devices. These devices allegedly allow injection of AT+CIMI and AT+CGSN over Bluetooth, exposing sensitive information such as IMSI, IMEI, call status, call setup stage, internet service status, signal strength...

CVE-2019-16401

Samsung Galaxy S8 plus Android version: 8.0.0, Build Number: R16NW.G955USQU5CRG3, Baseband Vendor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, Baseband: G955USQU5CRG3, Samsung Galaxy S3 Android version: 4.3, Build Number: JSS15J.I9300XXUGND5, Baseband Vendor: Samsung Exynos 4412, Baseband: I9300XXUGNA8, and Samsung...

Design/Logic Flaw

Viber through 11.7.0.5 allows a remote attacker who can capture a victim's internet traffic to steal their Viber account, because not all Viber protocol traffic is encrypted. TCP data packet 9 on port 4244 from the victim's device contains cleartext information such as the device model and OS...

China-Linked Hackers Spy on Texts With MessageTap Malware

Researchers have discovered a new malware used for cyber-espionage efforts by China-linked threat group APT41. The malware intercepts telecom SMS server traffic and sniffs out certain phone numbers and SMS messages – particularly those with keywords relating to Chinese political dissidents. The...

MESSAGETAP: Who’s Reading Your Text Messages?

FireEye Mandiant recently discovered a new malware family used by APT41 a Chinese APT group that is designed to monitor and save SMS traffic from specific phone numbers, IMSI numbers and keywords for subsequent theft. Named MESSAGETAP, the tool was deployed by APT41 in a telecommunications networ...

Unencrypted Mobile Traffic on Tor Network Leaks PII

Unencrypted, sensitive and confidential user data originating from millions of mobile devices is carried on the Tor network every day. Now researchers say they have devised away to scoop up that data and create personal profiles for specific mobile users, that include GPS coordinates, web...

Half of Android Handsets Susceptible to Clever SMS Phishing Attack

Over half of all Android handsets are susceptible to a clever over-the-air SMS phishing attack that could allow an adversary to route all internet traffic through a rogue proxy, as well as hijack features such as a handset’s homepage, mail server and directory servers for synchronizing contacts a...

Design/Logic Flaw

Some Huawei 4G LTE devices, P30 versions before ELE-AL00 9.1.0.162C01E160R1P12/C01E160R2P1 and P30 Pro versions before VOG-AL00 9.1.0.162C01E160R1P12/C01E160R2P1, are exposed to a message replay vulnerability. For the sake of better compatibility, these devices implement a less strict check on th...

Cellular networks flaws expose 4G & 5G devices to IMSI capturing attacks

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 but 5G LTE protocols to IMSI capturing attacks. T...

ToRPEDO Privacy Attack on 4G/5G Networks Affects All U.S. Carriers

Privacy-breaking flaws in the 4G and 5G mobile protocols could allow attackers to intercept calls, send fake amber alerts or other notifications, track location and more, according to a research team from Purdue University and the University of Iowa. In a paper presented at Mobile World Congress ...

New Attacks Against 4G, 5G Mobile Networks Re-Enable IMSI Catchers

At NDSS Symposium 2019, a group of university researchers yesterday revealed newly discovered cellular network vulnerabilities that impact both 4G and 5G LTE protocols. According to a paper published by the researchers, "Privacy Attacks to the 4G and 5G Cellular Paging Protocols Using Side Channe...

CVE-2017-3217

CalAmp LMU 3030 series OBD-II CDMA and GSM devices has an SMS text message interface that can be deployed where no password is configured for this interface by the integrator / reseller. This interface must be password protected, otherwise, the attacker only needs to know the phone number of the...

Design/Logic Flaw

CalAmp LMU 3030 series OBD-II CDMA and GSM devices has an SMS text message interface that can be deployed where no password is configured for this interface by the integrator / reseller. This interface must be password protected, otherwise, the attacker only needs to know the phone number of the...

Detecting Stingrays

Researchers are developing technologies that can detect IMSI-catchers: those fake cell phone towers that can be used to surveil people in the area. This is good work, but it's unclear to me whether these devices can detect all the newer IMSI-catchers that are being sold to governments worldwide...

BlackBerry CEO Defends Lawful Access Principles, Supports Phone Hack

BlackBerry’s CEO made the company’s stance on lawful access requests clear this week and is defending actions to provide Canadian law enforcement with what it needed to decrypt communications between devices. The company’s CEO John Chen penned a statement on Monday, reiterating that one of...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1322

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Ubuntu network-manager package for Ubuntu vivid before 0.9.10.0-4ubuntu15.1, Ubuntu 14.10 before 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu28.1, and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS before 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu7.1 allows local users to change the modem device configuration or read arbitrary files via a...

Android IMSI-Catcher Detector: AIMSICD

AIMSICD is an app to detect IMSI-Catchers . IMSI-Catchers are false mobile towers base stations acting between the target mobile phones and the real towers of service providers. As such they are considered a Man-In-The-Middle MITM attack. In the USA the IMSI-Catcher technology is known under the...

Cellular Privacy, SS7 Security Shattered at 31C3

The recently concluded Chaos Communications Congress 31c3 in Hamburg, Germany was an all-out assault on cellular call privacy and security. Of particular interest was the SS7 protocol used to route calls between switching centers. Researchers, doing parallel research as it turns out, found gaping...