Re:Uncovering the CIA's Crypto AG operation
by bjornsing on Friday March 06, 2020 @05:08AM
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AFAIK stingrays typically use 2G, since 3G and upwards have strong mutual authentication (i.e. the network authenticates the phone but the phone also authenticates the network). They just jam the 3/4G signal to make the target phone fall back to 2G.
Agreed.
I've never done it, but I suppose you could use 2 SDRs. One for setting up OpenBTS, one for jamming 4G/LTE.
There's NextEPC: https://github.com/nextepc/nextepc
Fake base station attacks do not work with 4G/5G, but a downgrade attack to 2G might still be possible.
For the lazy, a 3G tower dev kit from Range Networks is $8,000 [1].
[1] https://rangenetworks.com/get-started