'Simjacker' Attack Can Track Phones Just by Sending a Text

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1B Mobile Users Vulnerable to Ongoing ‘SimJacker’ Surveillance Attack

A vulnerability discovered in mobile SIM cards is being actively exploited to track phone owners’ locations, intercept calls and more – all merely by sending an SMS message to victims, researchers say. Researchers on Thursday disclosed what they said is a widespread, ongoing exploit of a SIM...

CVE-2019-16256

Some Samsung devices include the SIMalliance Toolbox Browser aka S@T Browser on the UICC, which might allow remote attackers to retrieve location and IMEI information, or retrieve other data or execute certain commands, via SIM Toolkit STK instructions in an SMS message, aka Simjacker. Recent...