Hanging Up on Mobile in the Name of Security

An entrepreneur and virtual currency investor is suing AT&T for $224 million, claiming the wireless provider was negligent when it failed to prevent thieves from hijacking his mobile account and stealing millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies. Increasingly frequent, high-profile attacks like the...

Florida Man Arrested in SIM Swap Conspiracy

Police in Florida have arrested a 25-year-old man accused of being part of a multi-state cyber fraud ring that hijacked mobile phone numbers in online attacks that siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from victims. On July 18, 2018, Pasco County...

Reddit Breach Highlights Limits of SMS-Based Authentication

Reddit.com today disclosed that a data breach exposed some internal data, as well as email addresses and passwords for some Reddit users. As Web site breaches go, this one doesn't seem too severe. What's interesting about the incident is that it showcases once again why relying on mobile text...

How a man hacked his victims’ SIM cards to steal millions of dollars

By Waqas Californian Authorities have arrested and charged a 20-year old college student Joel Ortiz for being part of a mobile phone hijacking group who hacked SIM cards. According to reports the detainee managed to hijack over 40 phone numbers and stole $5 million as well from high-profile targe...

T-Mobile Employee Made Unauthorized ‘SIM Swap’ to Steal Instagram Account

T-Mobile is investigating a retail store employee who allegedly made unauthorized changes to a subscriber's account in an elaborate scheme to steal the customer's three-letter Instagram username. The modifications, which could have let the rogue employee empty bank accounts associated with the...

CVE-2014-6111

IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 5.1.x before 5.1.0.15-ISS-TIM-IF0057 and Security Identity Manager 6.0.x before 6.0.0.4-ISS-SIM-IF0001 and 7.0.x before 7.0.0.0-ISS-SIM-IF0003 store encrypted user credentials and the keystore password in cleartext in configuration files, which allows local users to...

CVE-2014-6109

The CVE-2014-6109 entry affects IBM Security Identity Manager and IBM Tivoli Identity Manager. The vulnerability allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions and obtain sensitive information via server-side LDAP query handling issues in IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 5.1....

sim-sim.com.tw XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-604889 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| sim-sim.com.tw Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

CVE-2015-9122

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9645, MDM9655, MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 430, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 800, SD...

Buffer overflow

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9645, MDM9655, MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 430, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 800, SD...

CVE-2015-9122

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9645, MDM9655, MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 430, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 800, SD...

CVE-2015-9122: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9645, MDM9655, MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 430, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 800, SD...

PT-2018-4459

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Android versions prior to 2018-04-05 security patch level Description The issue is related to a possible buffer overflow in Android. This occurs when a SIM card sends a response greater than 64KB of data for a stream APDU command...

Soldering for Reverse Engineering. Swapping out eSIMs with “normal” SIMs

Sometimes, the mobile devices we work on only have cellular data connections. In those instances, we’re usually pretty interested in trying things like this to get credentials for the APN so we can start snooping around on that. We’re also really interested in monitoring what kind of traffic is...

Buffer overflow

In Android before security patch level 2018-04-05 on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile SD 845, SD 850, a buffer overflow may potentially occur while processing a response from the SIM card...

CVE-2017-18134

In Android before security patch level 2018-04-05 on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile SD 845, SD 850, a buffer overflow may potentially occur while processing a response from the SIM card...

CVE-2017-18134: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

In Android before security patch level 2018-04-05 on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile SD 845, SD 850, a buffer overflow may potentially occur while processing a response from the SIM card...

Flight Sim Labs’ ‘Heavy Handed’ Anti-Piracy Tactics Raise Hackles

Software developer Flight Sim Labs is in hot water after acknowledging that it installed a password harvester for the Google Chrome browser in its flight simulator product. The company explained it was only targeting pirate users of its software, but critics are calling the tactics “dirty”. The...

Code injection

The FSX / P3Dv4 installer 2.0.1.231 for Flight Sim Labs A320-X sends a user's Google account credentials to http://installLog.flightsimlabs.com/LogHandler3.ashx if a pirated serial number has been entered, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, e.g., by sniffing the networ...

CVE-2018-7259

The FSX / P3Dv4 installer 2.0.1.231 for Flight Sim Labs A320-X sends a user's Google account credentials to http://installLog.flightsimlabs.com/LogHandler3.ashx if a pirated serial number has been entered, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, e.g., by sniffing the networ...