Sim Cards Officially been Hacked, Millions Affected

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Smartphones are susceptible to malware and carriers have enabled NSA snooping, but the prevailing wisdom has it there’s still one part of your mobile phone that remains safe and un-hackable: your SIM card.
Yet after three years of research, German cryptographer Karsten Nohl claims to have finally found encryption and software flaws that could affect millions of SIM cards, and open up another route on mobile phones for surveillance and fraud.

Nohl, who will be presenting his findings at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on July 31, says his is the first hack of its kind in a decade, and comes after he and his team tested close to 1,000 SIM cards for vulnerabilities, exploited by simply sending a hidden SMS. The two-part flaw, based on an old security standard and badly configured code, could allow hackers to remotely infect a SIM with a virus that sends premium text messages (draining a mobile phone bill), surreptitiously re-direct and record calls, and — with the right combination of bugs — carry out payment system fraud.

Payment fraud could be a particular problem for mobile phone users in Africa, where SIM-card based payments are widespread. The deployment of so-called NFC payment technology, already slow to take off, could also be at risk, Nohl says, as well as the ability for carriers to track charges to each caller’s account.
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This is a big problem, now we have to all start releasing hot fixes to prevent our sim cards from being violated as well as our personal lives.
 
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Lucky I havent had any problems and dont use my cellphone for transactions on prepaid or have money in it.
 
Guys its all a hoax, I swear you have nothing to worry about, just send me all your details and I will make sure it won't be anyone else hacking in to your accounts etc. :p

Seriously though, I am glad I don't do banking on my phone, fb etc I don't really care about but blimey banks, hell no, I would be "so frikken pissed"
 
I think it's in korea where they do not use SIM cards,correct me if i'm wrong.If only we could move on from this technology.
 
KofDelight said:
I think it's in korea where they do not use SIM cards,correct me if i'm wrong.If only we could move on from this technology.
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Is there any reason why we need simcards to connect to a network when we could use software instead always wondered that or even use an ISP account type of thing :p.
 
MissileToe said:
Jeez, it gets worse. Hidden smses. Could have sworn I got one of those the other day...
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Um in the article they say that these guys can hack your sim without you even knowing it :rolleyes: :p

simon said:
Guys its all a hoax, I swear you have nothing to worry about, just send me all your details and I will make sure it won't be anyone else hacking in to your accounts etc. :p

Seriously though, I am glad I don't do banking on my phone, fb etc I don't really care about but blimey banks, hell no, I would be "so frikken pissed"
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lol...

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KofDelight said:
I think it's in korea where they do not use SIM cards,correct me if i'm wrong.If only we could move on from this technology.
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Yeh they stopped supporting simcard tech about 5 or 6 years ago, they use some sort of chip for every phone.
 
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